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| | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 48 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: May 2006 Posts: 48 | Took Bertha out for a run yesterday....went quite a way and brought her home. Today I want to run her and blew alot of black soot out of the tail pipe...also noticed that when she lugged she blew some oil smoke...and everytime I shifted she puffed oil smoke...She has a 1966 261 straight 6 in there....one speed rear end
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Matt | | | | | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 5,152 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 5,152 | Are you sure its a '66? I know some Canadian Pontiacs used a 261 into the 60's but otherwise that motor went out of production at the end of 1962.
Otherwise first thing I would do is pull the plugs and 'read' them. Are they oily or sooty?
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It's true. I really don't do anything but browse the Internet looking for trouble... | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 48 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: May 2006 Posts: 48 | no not sure....it was a 1966 straight 6 with the large valve cover on it....blue...and it is a Chevrolet motor...still puffs on shifts and smokes a bit when it lugs going up a hill....not a lot but enough for me to see..... | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 | How many bolts hold the valve cover down?
Why have you titled this "283 EC", when it isn't a 283? | | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | naddaclue,
Regardless of what engine your 1947.1 283EC GMC 3-Ton has in it, this problem sounds like worn valve guides. Any true black smoke would be excess fuel, but as you are aware, the blue smoke is burning oil.
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