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Old Aug 3, 2002 | 09:54 AM
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Smokey.

Recently at start-up car puffs a decent amount of white smoke, occasionally blue, and sometimes and idle it smokes. (can see it in the headlights of the cars behind me when accelerating from a stop. Valve seals guess are shot. But could the rings be as well?
and how mch are we talking to repair this stuff? .heh.
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'89rs 305TBI
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Old Aug 3, 2002 | 11:18 AM
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I was quoted something like 250.00 for my valve stem seals a few years back from a Pontiac dealer I worked at. I never got it done and the car seems to be fine. I get it just at start up.
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Old Aug 3, 2002 | 12:27 PM
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run a compression test to check the rings. call whoever you want to work on your car for prices, or where you buy your parts, there is a big differance in differant areas of the country.
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