just got my car running on all 4 cylinders again.. - new leads. BUT its spewing plumes of smoke.. running a progressive weber that is jetted for a 1776 (running on a 1600)

is this whats causing the smoke? should i be peaking like i am?

I'm no mechanic but white smoke sounds bad to me.

If it was black smoke then you could say you are just running rich. I think it may be time for a compression test.

I will say all is cool

plumes of WHITE smoke usually suggests unburnt fuel being burnt off.

The fact you say you got all 4 going again sounds like you had a cylinder collecting petrol.

Had exactly this prob once with a dead spark plug.
Petrol being pumped into a cylinder and being unburnt.

When i changed the spark plug big plume of WHITE smoke that finally cleared and all was well

Black smoke - rich

Blue / grey - oil

White - unburnt fuel

check you haven't got to much oil in it. this will get blown out of the breather and if that is connected to the air cleaner as standard, it will burn white.
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Is it coming from the exhaust or from the engine breather?If it's coming from the exhaust-you are sucking oil from somewhere into the intake system.I don't know anything about stickshift autos-do they use normal gear oil or an auto trans type fluid? Does it use a vacuum modulator of any sort that has a hose connected to the inlet manifold?On early cars using a modulator-if the diaphragm got pin holed,they would suck auto fluid into the intake, giving white smoke out the exhaust.Could also have something to do with its high idle speed.Food for thought.

there is a vaccume hose running from the inlet manifold to the control valve for the auto stick..

but the fact that all 4 are running now could suggest unburnt fuel.. especially since i have the over jetted weber.. i'll needa fill him up thismorning, and i'll be taking him to APVWC this arvo, for them to tune the lot up and look at the auto (i cannot select reverse)

i dont think i will worry to much.. i have done enough of that this week..

thanks guys

If its WHITE smoke then your burning Auto Trans fluid so its sucking from the gearbox probally the modulator

unburnt fuel burns black

any idea why it would have suddenly started after i have replaced the leads?

U may have knock a tube off or re fitted it to the wrong pipe

had a look, and everything looks fine in there to me..except no hose to the vac advance on the dissy..

just took it round the block, and then up to wellington Rd to get petrol.. not a long drive, but there was no white smoke.. on the way home i got him up to about 80, and still no smoke...just that chahfy shit, that i always had on start-up - the unburnt fuel i assume.. its going into the shop today for a dyno tune, and now to look at the auto stick.. reverse does not work at all.. all 3 forward gears are fine.

PLEASE let me know how you go today, mine has started to do that too... getting VERY hard to select reverse.

Bah! And change gears 7 times more often? No thanx!

i think i migh get a reaal car *waits for it*

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! :cussing

Blasphemy it is saying that!!

What's a real car? Does that mean I don't have to pedal anymore?