Man Cave - Back on track, again. Last night before going to bed I convinced myself the white smoke had to be water getting into the combustion chamber. I thought it may be coming from the intake manifold as I had loosened the front and rear bolts to raise the engine to re-route the transmission lines but had not re-torqued them properly. After church I started back in on it and retorqued the intake to no avail. Now it is blowing blue smoke and deposits of oil in the tail pipe. I took the right bank header off so I could see which cylinder was the culprit. I started the engine and everything seemed fine, no belching smoke. I got a piece of paper to hold up to the exhaust ports to see if any deposits of oil would show up that I could not see with the naked eye. Well, the paper promptly caught fire and I could not see a problem. I called my friend Mack and he said it has to be something in the tail pipe or in the muffler even though they are brand new. So I put the header back on separated the exhaust pipe and it ran fine, no smoke. Then I had to take the whole remainder of the exhaust pipe, muffler, and tail pipe because they were crimped together from the clamps. I had a 36 pipe wrench and tried to separate them to no avail. I got out my air chisel and cut off the muffler. Sure enough, it was full of sludge. When I got these mufflers, one was in a plain white box, and the other was in the original package. I have to believe someone returned it who had a problem and it had oil in it. I will have to see what the store says tomorrow! I ran it for a full hour and no smoke whatsoever. Needless to say, I was one happy camper! I would post a video but my laptop does not allow video posting for some reason.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 02:22:34 +0000
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