After the major task of replacing the valve stem seals and adjusting the valves, we now have a bit of white/blue smoke coming out of the tailpipe on startup and it can be seen as it drives down the street away from me.

Its not a huge cloud or anything, but i dont remember it putting out smoke before. sigh.

The other thing we did was not reconnect the EGR.

Also, the dancing oil cap test revealed a very bouncy cap with tons of vapor coming out, and by that i mean a stream like steam from a kettle.

whatcha thinK?


My one observation on the seals is that after using a box wrench to push them on, no easy task, i'm wondering if i may have damaged one of them?

hoping I didn't scratch a valve stem, though i'm guessing they are pretty hard.

brer