Starting issue with smoke

[keeler]

Today when I went to start my car (and a few other times in the past) it would turn over and slowly die. I will give it gas and it'll attempt to and die. After doing this 3 or 4 times it'll finally start and blows out white smoke and black smoke. I drive it everyday and have no problems other then it running rich. It's done this a few times over the past couple months and it's a rebuilt motor about 4k on it. Anyone have any idea? Puddling or something causing it?

 

[onegeenewbie]

do you let the car idle for a few minutes after you drive it?

 

[WeaselHack]

Just as you stated - you car is running rich (black smoke). You possibly have fouled plugs. Replacing them should help the startup problem temporally but unless you determine why you are running rich (vac/boost leak) and fix it they simply continue to foul.

 

[TSiBill]

you also said you have white smoke. That means you are burning coolant. This can be caused by cracked head gasket, block, or head. May i suggest a compression test and if that show that the compression is leaking try to do a leak down test.