Not me, the CSE (no offense to those who do smoke).
After my unfortunate incident with my sump (cracked it putting my trans back in) I decided the best way to get it fixed was to remove the cat to get better access to either braze or epoxy it (new ones have proven very hard to find). The cat had 200,000 miles and with the car running rich lately I had a pretty good feeling it was knackered. I was right. Anyway, I figured since I was doing that much work, I may as well replace the leaking sections of exhaust while I was at it.
Long story short, the lead-in to the center box was in really bad shape and broke cleanly off when I tried to fit the new tube to it. As it stands right now, I pretty much have a straight pipe since the center and rear boxes are detached. I will definitely be fixing the leak but there's a bigger problem. When I dropped it back down and started it up, it was positively vomiting blue smoke out of both the hole and the pipe out of the back box (apparently there's still a partial connection). It's not the first time it's smoked. It's been doing it for a while but just on the first start of the morning and 99% of the time, only when it's parked on an angle or incline. This time the front was obviously WAY up in the air to allow me to work on the exhaust. I had started it a couple of times with the nose up to check for exhaust leaks so the engine would have built oil pressure. This was by far the most smoke I've seen pouring out but true to form, when I took it out driving later, it was perfectly clear.
So that's where I'm lost. In the past when I've lost oil seals on turbos they smoke badly and constantly so while I'm inclined to believe that's the issue here (the turbo was changed at 80,000 miles) it's just not totally consistent with the normal symptoms. That would be why I'm here asking. Anyone have thoughts? Similar experiences? Any help is very much appreciated!
