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Originally Posted by tmblackflag
It's white, and stinky. Smells like exhaust.
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Oil smoke smells like burnt oil.
White, thin, wispy smoke is steam. That's the water you see running out of tail pipes when they're cold. Why exhaust systems rot from the inside if they're used for short journeys.
Black is gas (rich). Probably should never see that on a 3.2.
Oil smoke is grey/blue - if it's being burnt. Not a problem for it to puff oil on starting after sitting overnight, so long as it clears in a few seconds (2-3) of running; that's oil that drained into the combustion chamber getting burnt.
Once hot, blue/grey smoke on acceleration is rings, or guides on deceleration. Probably only folks directly behind you can see this, unless it's bad enough to see it in the mirror.
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I guess the point of my thread was to question whether or not oil could leak enough while driving to justify me being down 2.5 quarts over 1000 miles. And that much leaking without seeing any of it in my driveway.
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Where did the oil level get set? Most good shops set the level, @180, mid-way between the two marks, to allow the oil to get hotter without puking out the overflow. That's more than a "quart low" from the top mark right there. If you fill right to the top mark, that's too much oil in traffic where my motor reaches @ 210 or 220 without airflow through the FMOC.
How did you use the car? My motor uses lots more oil on short (15 mile) journeys because the clearances are larger for longer and more oil "escapes". Uses almost nothing on long journeys.
Factory quotes 1 quart per 1000 miles for a 3.2, no? Seems to me you could be only 8 ozs or so adrift. And if it were overfilled, it could have rejected some of that when it got hot...
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I'll attack the triangle of death asap, or at least inspect it and go from there.
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Looking at it is always a good start.
