When I start my car, a 94 T-Bird, thick white smoke comes out of the exhaust. I checked the fluids, all full.?

Question

Also, you can slightly smell what seems to be a burning rubber smell in the smoke that comes out. All of this only happens when I start the car, after that it runs fine. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Sounds like you are burning a bit of oil when you start the car. It's common in older engines. What is happening is that the rings around your pistons are old and no so flexible when they are cold. Once they warm up they are fine, thus you car stops smoking. You can put in an oil additive with your next oil change. That should make some difference. Or you can swith to a full synthetic oil. That helped my older mercury to not smoke so much.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Natural Quit Smoking Magic

Answer 4

Blue smoke happens when your burning oil. White smoke is typical of bad gas or carburetor/injector problems, the rubber smell is the burning of carbon in the gas. You can try running some carb or injector cleaner in a full tank of gas, also you may want to run a higher octane gas. If all fails take it to the shop to get them cleaned. Good luck!

Answer 5

when you turn off your car a small amount of oil is leaking past the valves. its not really going to hurt ne thing but it should be fixed

Answer 6

Sounds like the valve guides or seals. You'll need to get the heads rebuilt or warm it up good and go trade it off.

Answer 7

White smoke is water, just condensation, no problem. Blue smoke is oil. Then there might be a problem.

Answer 8

its probably your valve seals-oil leaks down on the top of your pistons some cars you can replace them without taking your motor apart ask a mechanic

Answer 9

This is normal. Don't worry