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Little smoke and stumble at start.

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  • Start date Start date Oct 31, 2005

DMAN302

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Hey guys question: 04GT 6000 miles total...today at cold start the car stumbled for a quick second and a blue puff of smoke came out the pipes for 1-2 seconds. I was behind the car when it was started, that's why I noticed, what would cause something like that on a low mile engine...5000 with oil changed at first 600 miles,3000miles, and just recently at 5900. All changes were with castrol 5w30.
 

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Did you have the crankcase overfilled by chance? The 04 GTs can't hold more than 6 quarts.
 

DMAN302

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nope 5.7 in the crank..started her up again later after sitting for 5 hours..no sign of problem.
 

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Well if it does it again, just let the dealer figure it out. This is why Ford gave us a warranty.
 

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did the car sit for a while or anthing?
 
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It's oil in the intake from the pcv system. Mine does this occasionally, it freaked me out at first, I thought it was valve guide seals. But, it's real intermittent, like three times every 10k miles, valve guides would do it almost every time it was cold. I finally figured that it was just enough blow by b/c of thin synthetic oil that would up puddled on top of the valves.
 
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