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- Subject: Re: IROC smokes on start
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- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:10:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.210108.24712@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
- kent@lightnin.Columbia.NCR.COM (Kent Richardson) writes:
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- >
- >Just wondering if any other Camaro owners have the same problem I do with the
- >car smoking a lot at startup. The amount it smokes seems to increase relative
- >to how long the car has sat without running(i.e. next day-smokes a little,
- >after a week-smokes a LOT). I was wondering what this is and if anything can
- >be done to stop it. I think it may be dirty injectors?? The engine is a
- >305 cubic in. (5.0L) with Tuned Port Injection. If it is'nt the injectors I
- >don't feel like getting a $50 injection purge.
- >
- Oh yeah, leaky injectors will usually result in black, not blue smoke on start-
- up. You will also usually experience longer cranking, before the car starts.
- The "after a week smokes alot" factor, says it's probably not injectors. I own
- a 86 T/A with 26,000 miles on it and it's been leaking past the valve stem sea
- ls for a couple of years now. It pisses you off, a car with that low of mileag
- e fogging the drive when you start it. Oh well, i'll get to it one of these da
- ys. Spence.
-