it does get quite hot inside an engine .... hotter air holds more moisture .... warm, moist air flowing out to cooler, drier ambient air makes for visible vapor, kinda like "steam coming off coffee"

as someone suggested above, converting to a PCV system [available in 58, may even have been common on car engines, check your shop manual] will eliminate any combustion vapors out the draft tube, other than that there is no way to prevent these old-tech engines from 'smelling like oil'

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics