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Blue Smoke On Cold Start

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98stang_v6gang

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So recently ive been seeing light blue smoke coming from under the hood and from my tailpipe on my 98 v6 after starting it overnight.I changed my oil the day before this started happening. Is this common? Any idea what is causing this? I used semi synthetic 5w30 .
 

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How many miles?
Is there blue smoke coming out of the oil fill hole?
 

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karthief said:
How many miles?
Is there blue smoke coming out of the oil fill hole?
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It has 186000 on it and no
 

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Where is the smoke coming from under the hood, valve cover leaking on the manifold?
 

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Where is the smoke coming from under the hood, valve cover leaking on the manifold?
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Its around the manifold on the right side .Sometimes itll come from there and other times just through the tailpipe . Goes away after I drive down the road for a minute and wont happen again till the next morning.
 

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The smoke around the manifold (this is the exhaust manifold right?) May be oil drippings from a seeping valve cover gasket, the tailpipe smoke may be valve seals, if it does not smoke out the tailpipe all the time I would not worry about it, watch to see if it smokes when you pull away from a traffic light after idling a couple minutes.
 

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BTW welcome to stangnet, I moved this to the tech forums to get some expert opinions, and not just my shade tree mindless dribble.
 

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BTW welcome to stangnet, I moved this to the tech forums to get some expert opinions, and not just my shade tree mindless dribble.
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Haha Thanks for your help. Is it normal for these engines to burn oil like this?
 

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How much does it burn?
 

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How much does it burn?
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Not really sure yet. Only been doing it for a about a week and the dipstick is still in the safe area
 
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