RE: [T3]Smoke signals (was white smoke)

["Drake ." <vw_type3@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>generally, (and I mean generally there are no absolutes) when coming from a 
tail pipe, blueish or a light greyish smoke is burning oil. black smoke 
usually signifies that you are runing rich.

This is one of the reasons that you have the lovely blue smoke from 
chainsaws, and other 2-stroke motors. You definitely are burning oil in 
these cases, because you mixed it in with the gas...hopefully :)

That will be the case for any auto...generally


>From: "Erkson, Toby" <toby.erkson@intel.com>
>To: type3@vwtype3.org
>Subject: RE: [T3]Smoke signals (was white smoke)
>Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:49:13 -0800
>
>I thought black smoke was oil and blue smoke was gas?  Now I'm confused.  
>Is
>the below true?  I'd like to post the material on my web site.  Of course, 
>I
>want it centered around our air-cooled cars.
>
>   Toby Erkson
>   air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
>   '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L, Berg five-speed
>   '95 VW Jetta III GL 2.0L, P-Chip, Jamex suspension, 2.25" MagnaFlow
>exhaust, etc.
>   Portland, Oregon, http://www.icbm.org/
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >...
> >Another thing to consider, white smoke is usually raw gas. Grey or blue
> >is oil, black is too rich combustion.
>...
>
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