Thread: Blue Smoke After idling for too Long

I noticed that if I idle for too long then start moving (slowly or quickly), I will get a nice cloud of blue smoke. At first I thought it was the turbo, thus I rebuild the turbo with a 360* turbine seal too. I am still getting blue smoke though.

Yesterday I checked the compression: 209, 210, 210, 215. Hasn't changed from what it was before I slapped this turbo on, so doesn't seem like the piston rigs are at fault.

On another fun problem, after doing the compression test yesterday the car doesn't want to start... Troubleshooting thread.

Fuse for the fuel pump?

Are these all oem feed and return lines for the turbo? Check turbo drain make sure its draining properly and not kinked if that checks out check turbo feed line if its a steel braidied one you may be getting too much oil and need a restrictor.

Valve stem seals.

do a leak down test.

Valve stem seals starting to go bad..

Won't find valve stem seal issue with that.

true but it will let you know where you don't have a problem.

-4an to feed, big oem sized drain that is not obstructed. I am on a VE so oil pressure is massive, but I have a restrictor to.



Yeah sadly Keo said the same.



I did before actually, but had some bad luck actually getting any usable numbers, it was leaking quite a bit but I think it was my cams that I couldn't get into proper TDC.

Compression shows it isn't rings. Head gasket would be white smoke. Valves leaking wouldn't be smoke.