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Anonymous Posted on Apr 26, 2016

2005 Nissan Path:replaced batt, alt, plugs, coils due to rough run & smoke. 1st smoke was blue after new parts it's more gray or white. New plugs smell like fuel. Exhaust is rich in fuel smell. Ideas?

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    Compression test had great results. I'm stumped. Please help me.

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    Coolant is beautiful color as it should be.

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Blue/grey smoke is typically engine oil burning.

Grey/black smoke is typically excess fuel (or insufficient air).

White smoke is invariably water that has turned to steam. (water is a natural product of combustion as well as the stuff the head gasket keeps out of the cylinder).
Sometimes an engine can emit a fine mist of unburned fuel that seems like white smoke.

Clearly your engine is burning some engine oil. Perhaps the valve stem oil seals are failing. When an engine noticably burns oil it must be realised this isn't good for the oxygen sensor and catalytic converter and it is inevitable the life of these things will be shortened.

It is doubtful the replacements you have so far carried out will have changed anything and it is likely to be coincidence the colour of the smoke has changed.

What is needed is a diagnostic check to inspect the live data from the sensors when it will probably be found one or both oxygen sensors will need replacing and perhaps other things have grown tired too - at an extended mileage an injector could start dribbling or the spray patterns be so poor the engine won't be able to burn it all and then it will be expelled into the exhaust.

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    Thank you for the helpful guidance & knowledge.

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SOURCE: run rough, stalls, exhaust smells

check your engie oil. smell it and make sure that there is no gas getting into your oil.

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SOURCE: Saab 9-3 (2000) misses and white smoke from exhaust

check spark plug wire they may been put back
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SOURCE: 95 Chevy C-1500 runs rough at idle and during accelleration

Check the vacuum line to the fuel pressure regulator and check to see if the fuel pressure regulator has gone bad. Give the throttle body a good cleaning and the injectors too. Do not use carb cleaner, it's to corrosive for the gaskets used in the throttle body. The other thing too that would cause this is a stuck or bad EGR valve, Try cleaning the EGR valve too since your cleaning the throttle body. Good luck and keep me posted.

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  • Posted on Jan 16, 2010

SOURCE: runs waaaay to rich, rough idle, sometimes

fuel injected?try replacing the fuel regulator

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  • Posted on Apr 30, 2010

SOURCE: 1992 pontiac grand am no acceleration, a rough idle (engine miss)

Does it have the 2.3l Quad 4 engine? If so replace the plastic piece that the coils go into, they go bad and leak spark to the cam towers and then you get a nice one or multiple cylinder misfire.

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