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Puff of blue smoke at start up is gone now

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Ganton

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I was using Pennzoil 5W20 in my '01 Cobra as per the wgt. specified by Ford and was occasionally getting a visible cloud of blue smoke at start up. At the last oil change, I switched to 5W30 full synthetic and, guess what--no more blue smoke ever since!
 

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Hmmm, I don't mean to ruin your new finding, but I too switched from 5w-20 to 5w-30 and the puff of blue smoke at start-up is still present every now & then...

Did you do change anything else as well (PCV)?
 
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not to ruin your fun, but synthetic oil doesnt show when its burned, therefore no blue smoke. my car blows a ton of oil and if i put sythetic in it, it still burns it but you just cant see it
 

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Okay, will do....

COBRA90GT said:
Hmmm, I don't mean to ruin your new finding, but I too switched from 5w-20 to 5w-30 and the puff of blue smoke at start-up is still present every now & then...

Did you do change anything else as well (PCV)?
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Just the filter, but I now will go ahead and change the PCV too.....Anything else I should consider changin'?
 

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Mine doesn't burn much at all that I can tell....

1990gtstang said:
not to ruin your fun, but synthetic oil doesnt show when its burned, therefore no blue smoke. my car blows a ton of oil and if i put sythetic in it, it still burns it but you just cant see it
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Even with the "puff of blue smoke" present, I couldn't see much, if any, decrease on the ol' dip stick between changes, but the "blue smoke" bothered me just the same so I'm glad to (apparently) be rid of it....
 
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