ThE_BoMB
02-04-2005, 04:42 PM
Well I fired her up yesterday. Let her warm up for 10-15 min. Decided to have her run for a bit and give a little throttle. I look back blue smoke. I have been letter her wamr up every week, for the past 4 months.
This was a odd scene, I hadnt noticed any smoke as it was idling. And i went to the back of the car and watched the exhaust no smoke.
So I searched the tech forum for blue smoke. And what came up was vavle seals and piston rings. So I went into lordco and regency nissan asked them what they would do. The guy at regency nissan was actually quite helpful he said that chances are because it was instorage that the seals would normally just get hard because they arent lubricated enough. Mainly because the use of the car has been very infrequent. The engine does have 205k kms on it so its getting on. He also said theres a chance once you get it running a bit more that the problem could just fix itself.
Next I went to lordco. I told the specialist my problem and he reccommended a a lucas oil stabilizer. He told me its features and said that chances are it would improve, and lead to less thermal breakdown. So I picked up a bottle of that. He said that you could put upto 60% into the oil (2.25 litres/ quarts). I didnt like that idea, the bottle reccommended to new engines 15-20% (.57-.75 litres/quarts) so half to three quarters of the stabalizer to the oil.
I was also hoping to get some insight from you guys as well. Both of them said that unless its the piston rings then its not too big of a deal. Im probably gonna do a dry/wet compression test when i pull the motor to do the clutch.
Thanks.
This was a odd scene, I hadnt noticed any smoke as it was idling. And i went to the back of the car and watched the exhaust no smoke.
So I searched the tech forum for blue smoke. And what came up was vavle seals and piston rings. So I went into lordco and regency nissan asked them what they would do. The guy at regency nissan was actually quite helpful he said that chances are because it was instorage that the seals would normally just get hard because they arent lubricated enough. Mainly because the use of the car has been very infrequent. The engine does have 205k kms on it so its getting on. He also said theres a chance once you get it running a bit more that the problem could just fix itself.
Next I went to lordco. I told the specialist my problem and he reccommended a a lucas oil stabilizer. He told me its features and said that chances are it would improve, and lead to less thermal breakdown. So I picked up a bottle of that. He said that you could put upto 60% into the oil (2.25 litres/ quarts). I didnt like that idea, the bottle reccommended to new engines 15-20% (.57-.75 litres/quarts) so half to three quarters of the stabalizer to the oil.
I was also hoping to get some insight from you guys as well. Both of them said that unless its the piston rings then its not too big of a deal. Im probably gonna do a dry/wet compression test when i pull the motor to do the clutch.
Thanks.