[Shotimes] car trouble continued

[George Fourchy]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:07:09 -0400, Doug Copeland wrote:

>Maybe it was just doing that because of the oil
>in the motor from pulling the plugs? After a few minutes again, it started
>to smoke. I can't tell but it seems like the smoke is burning oil, and it is
>coming from the area of the spark plugs, so my guess is it is just oil from
>when I pulled the old plugs out. Any ideas?

It sounds like that might be liquid oil on the exhaust manifolds.  The heads
themselves won't get hot enough to make the oil smoke.  Hot liquid oil, when it
smokes, smells different than burned (in the cylinders) oil.  If you got a lot of
oil out of the wells, some of it probably dripped down on the exhaust manifolds. 
They will smoke until it is burned off.  If you can run the car up on ramps, inspect
the manifolds from below when they are cold to see if they have oil on them.  Then
start it and get underneath again with a flashlight to see if anything new is
dripping on them.  It might be that you have a badly seated gasket on the cam covers
(if you had them off) that will let oil drip out and down on the manifolds,
rewetting them each time you run the engine.  Those gaskets have to be sealed (with
sealant) in a particular way when you replace the covers.  

George