Smokey old pinto....

[Gareth]

In my Escort...

 

Smells of oil on start up, then just blows out blue grey

smoke on idle, but not oil, jus smells of strong burnt petrol...

 

Anyone make any sense of this

 

I've been told valve stem seals, or could it be that it needs

a damn good setting up

 

It was on a rolling road before I got it, but the company that rollered

it only replaced one plug.....

 

None of the others were gapped properly, the electrodes were touching on one

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Copey]

seals

[escort21]

If it does it on start up then i'd say stem seals, usually smokes on the overrun as well,do the stem seals. If it was overfuelling the smoke would be dark. Could be worn bores if it does it all the time or a dodgy ring

[Mart]

sounds a bit like seals to me but its not an expensive repair i've only done em on my old RS1600i but it was a nice easy job shouldnt think pinto will be any harder

[Gareth]

Cheers for the info guys

 

Oh yeah....

 

Tim, had any luck with that gear knob m8

[escort21]

Soz mate i forgot , i'll see what i can do

[Gareth]

Soz mate i forgot , i'll see what i can do

 

Don't worry about it too much m8, there's no rush

 

Like you said it's a hard shape to machine, an I dont want u gettin into

sh*t wit ur boss over a gear knob of all things