blue smoke on start up?
15 April 2012, 10:48 AM
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blue smoke on start up?
Just started the scooby this morning ance noticed blue smoke but it stinks of fuel, is this just unburnt fuel?
15 April 2012, 10:53 AM
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Could be or turbo
15 April 2012, 10:57 AM
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doubt it turbo, it was a brand new vf48 and its only done about 600 miles
15 April 2012, 12:29 PM
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Could it be old oil burning out of the turbo ....running in ?
15 April 2012, 12:38 PM
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maybe she been sitting a while doing nothing bless her
15 April 2012, 01:01 PM
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What power is your vf48 running mate?
15 April 2012, 01:30 PM
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Could be a leaky injector. Dripping some fuel into the cylinder after the engines turned off causing it to be over rich on start up.
15 April 2012, 01:54 PM
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Mine stinks or unburnt fuel on a cold start, but it is fine once the cat warms up.
15 April 2012, 03:01 PM
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turbo is fine checked that, i have no cats and its only on the start up after ita running its fine and it made 355bhp mate but found a split in my intake pipe so need to sort that and give it back to duncan to run again
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