Burning Oil / White/blue smoke

[98blackspyder]

Hey whats up guys, Ive noticed that when I turn on my car in the morning to warm up after about 5 min it starts blowing white maybe blue smoke. As I am backing it out of my drive way it the smoke is more noticable, I switch to drive and take off and I leave a cloud of smoke behind me. After it switches to 2nd gear it stops smoking. This only happens when the car sits for more than 5 min. Any ideas what can be wrong?

 

[importdude247]

valve seals... mine did the same thing so i replaced them... then everything was fine... it really wasn't that difficult of a job either... i bought one of the valve spring compressor tools... i think i was able to get mine of ebay and it wasn't that expensive and it did the trick:thumb

 

[staticbrainwash]

Actually, it could also be rings. But from the sound of it it's valve stems seals. Sometimes you can't tell btwn the two though. When im idling occasionally i'll blow a little smoke, then again at acccel from idle. It has something to do with low rpm not building enough heat to burn the oil leaking in.

 

[RavenX]

It can be a host of things 2 of them were mentioned already. Theres also the turbo seals that could be leaking oil and of course a blocked pcv valve. So i would go thru everything.

 

[staticbrainwash]

Unfortunately, the pcv is about the only easy one to check. Unless you've got leakdown and compression test gauges.

 

[sweet97]

I got a nice gauge for testing compression and leakdown at Advance auto for somewhere in the $20.-$30. range. good tool to have. Worth the expense, sure beats a mechanic who would charge twice that to test the same with the same gauge! mark

 

[staticbrainwash]

Good call. I know my mechanic charges 65 bucks for a comp test and then more on top for a leakdown.

 

[MrBoxx]

Check the turbo for shaft play. It's very easy to do: Take off the intake and try to wiggle the compressor wheel side to side, up and down, and in and out. A bare amount of wiggle is okay, but any more may cause some serious problems. Check for oil in your lower intercooler pipe also.