[s-cars] Smoking after startup

[Gabriel Caldwell]

Weeping head gasket?  Check your cross-over tube for oil collection to
see how your turbo seals are doing.  i.e. clean it out and then check
again later.

Gabriel Caldwell

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Levitt [mailto:lee at wheelman.com] 
Sent: April 6, 2004 9:26 AM
To: Qlist; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: [s-cars] Smoking after startup

I wrote about this once before and haven't figured out the problem. My
mechanic went through the car and found nothing wrong. However...it's
*still* smoking (intermittently).

Here are the symptoms.

The car must have been driven and parked, then driven again a couple of
hours later. On this second drive, if I start up, drive a bit and then
idle
for 30-60 seconds or more, the car will smoke quite noticeably. It does
not
smell like coolant. Instead, it smells just a bit like burnt or scalded
oil.
If I rev the engine or put the engine under load, it will clear in about
15
seconds and not happen again. I'm running Mobil 1 10-30 oil and the car
has
about 145K miles on it, stock engine.

Help! What could this be? Head gasket? Turbo seals? Demonic possession?

Thanks!

Lee
'95.5 S6 avant (Bilstein/Eibach/Euros/HID/BIRA S3)
'96 A6 quattro avant (Euros)

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