smoking and burning oil

[72maverick]

Hello,

Fairly recently dropped in a rebuild 200. Pretty much everything new on there except the distributor and the rebuilt head. First time it fired it smoked like no other. That eventually died down. Now about 200 miles there still is a nice puff of smoke upon start up and smoke on idle. Get a puff when accelerating as well. Definitely blue smoke and oil level drops a little. I'm guessing that smoke at first start up is burning off all the assembly oil and everything. Could the smoke be from rings not setting yet? I'm leaning towards the rings not setting or a bad valve seal. If anyone has any thoughts please let me know.


Thanks

 

[rbohm]

8) at 200 miles you havent even broken in the rings yet. give it time the smoke will go away as teh rings fully seat in their bores. if by 1000 miles you are still getting smoke i would be a bit concerned, but not overly so.

 

[72maverick]

Thanks,

That's awesome to hear. I've read many places a freshly rebuilt engine shouldn't smoke and all that fun stuff. Guess I just have an excuse to drive it now. =)

 

[72maverick]

Also, is there anything I can do to help seat things properly?

 

[rbohm]

Also, is there anything I can do to help seat things properly?

just drive the car and change the oil regularly. in fact change the oil when you hit 500 miles, then at a 1000, then at your normal intervals.that will help clear out all the little wear particles that accumulate in the oil.

 

[72maverick]

Alight cool. I appreciate the help.

 

[bubba22349]

Do you know what type of rings were used? You could try not driving at steady speeds for a long times, accelerate and slow down

 

[72maverick]

Not a clue on tge rings. I have been varying my speeds as well

 

[rbohm]

8) chances are the rebuilder used chrome faced rings, and if so they will take longer to properly seat. cast iron or moly faed rings seat much quicker.

 

[72maverick]

I was thining iron snce the builder used stock everything else but maybe chrome

 

[JackFish]

The other school of thought being to rev the crap out of it.
http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm
http://www.hastingsmfg.com/ServiceTips/ ... cedure.htm

 

[72maverick]

Hmmm I do love the sound of my intake when I punch it