Alan,
I and a few friends with the same era Spridgets have had the
same thing. Start up, drive for (me) exactly 1.65 miles, smoke
billows out at that point which is exactly when the temp gauge moves
off cold, then it stops exactly .58 miles later.
Solution? fergataboutit. Actually, I've come to utilize
it as at .75 miles I am turning on to a highway, where people tend to
run up my back.... I loose them in a cloud, and off I go! It's not
oil smoke either..it's stinkier and black.
Honestly, it's been discussed for years, and it happens only
on a certain generation of smog stuff.. the earliest.
Peter C.
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At 09:31 AM 3/22/2008, Alan Bromfield wrote:
>Team.
>I need some direction from your collective wisdom. A fellow club member with
>a MkIV Sprite has a recurring problem on his freshly rebuilt engine.
>
>Soon after startup if the car is left to idle for about 3 or 4 minutes it
>starts to smoke, quite badly. After another couple of minutes or so, the
>smoke clears and from then onwards everything is clean and sweet. We thought
>it was a matter of rings needing to bed in, so the car has had about 40 - 50
>miles of gentle running but it has made no difference.
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