edomund

I finally ended up buying my FC after I checked the compression and it turned out good. Now I am busy nursing it back to health, it has been sitting for years!

My first major problem is that it smokes really bad, but only when revved over around 4000 rpm's. It never smokes until I rev it over that point and when it dropps back below that point it stops pretty quick. Can anyone please give some advice?

Thanks, Ed

HuggyBear

wheres it smoking from? under the hood? out the exhaust?

edomund

It's white smoke, coming from the tail pipes. Compression and driveability are good.

edomund

If it helps the car had not been driven much in a couple years before I bought it. I'm thinking maybe too much oil is getting into the chambers from the seals being shrunk up from sitting. Or maybe the omp is giving too much oil when I put my foot into it? Please help.

edomund

Help please.

edomund

I think I found the problem! I tried putting some of that motor honey in to see if I had a oil seal leak. Guess what it does not smoke nearly as bad now sometimes not at all. So I now know the problem has to do with the oil seals. I don't know if they are cracked or if just shrunk from sitting. Maybe it will get better after I put some miles on it. Is there anything I can do to revive the seals other than new ones.

Keith

Try the ATF trick it should help you out.

edomund

Doesn't the atf trick just help restore compression by cleaning out the apex seals. Will the atf trick help the motor from oil getting in the chambers? Where are the oil seals?

SpeedRacer

Well blue smoke means you are burning oil, white smoke means water. Could be your water jacket... Check out this link. http://www.mazdatrix.com/faq/sidehsgs.htm

edomund

I'km almost 100% positive it's oil because it burns oil (check dipstick) and the no smoke stuff helps. Where are the oil control rings in the motor anyway?

edomund

Has anyone else had the atf trick cure there oil burnig problem?