Re: Blue Clouds of Smoke

Posted by Jim L. in OR On 2011/11/20 16:40:28
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Owen_Dyneto wrote:
It's happened to me and others, kind of a classic also with Cadillacs sharing the similar vacuum pump system. You're perhaps feeding oil from the crankcase into the intake via a failed check valve on the vacuum pump line. I just pulled the rubber line at the firewall and put a twig into it until I got home and cleaned the check valve.

PS - check valve is on the passenger side of the block, just above the oil pan/block interface, about midships.


Thanks yet again Owen. While my '55 Patrician doesn't have any smoke issues (thank God) I'll definitely file that one away should the problem occur. I would have never dreamed there was a check valve. It makes sense, now that I think on it but I wouldn't have come up with it on my own.

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