My vacume pump diaghram plunger fell out, and I had to rebuild the pump. When that hapeened, my brakes failed and I got massice amounts of black smoke out the tail pipe. It is not that kind of smoke.

I really dont think it is steam, but I suppose its possible. The coolant is nice and green, with no obvious oil contamination.

The car smokes the worst when cold. It is kinda hard to start, unless I have the idle adjustment knob set to highest. As the car heats up, it smokes less and less ... but still more than I am comfortable with.

The car runs cold too ... around 150 deg usually ... so mabye that adds to the problem?

Any more ideas?

EDIT: Oil consumption is not serious. This car smokes so much that I would be out of oil in a few days if it were indeed causing the problem.

A picture of the smoke:



This was taken after idling for 10-12 seconds on a cold start. She stuttered a bit, even on the highest idle setting.