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Originally Posted by mziggy16 View Post
This is very similar to my situation. Often at stoplights I’ll get the cloud of smoke blowing by,
I was told that the reason for this is that at idle is when vacuum is highest and it can pull oil though the valve worn valve guides.

It’s funny because I was always under the impression that it was things like smoke on decel that would tell you. I never had any of that. Just burned a lot of oil.
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