blue smoke under hood

[silversteed]

I have noticed some smoke under the hood of my car that coming up around the #4 plug. It seems like it goes away after I run it for awhile and then comes back after it sits for a few days. It is dry in the area that I see the smoke so I'm assuming that it is coming from somewhere under the exhaust manifold. My guess is that it is a head gasket, but there maybe other causes that I'm not aware of because I have no idea what is under there on an SVO.


Any idea where the smoke is coming from?

[BrianO]

blue smoke is oil, white smoke is antifreeze.. I'd check your valve cover gasket..maybe there's a small leak. could also be your oil line as well.

[silversteed]

Sounds about right, thanks for the help.

Guess I will check it out, see if I can seal it better, then wait and see. Not ready to do the rebuild the top end yet as I really don't know how bad the bottom end it.