Smoke color refresher please..?

[Homesteader]

I finally got my "54 Oliver S55 running today, after sitting for the better part of a year. Maybe 9 or 10 months. New governor linkage & assembly, points, plugs, rotor, condenser, cap, wires, coil, battery, and probably some other things I don"t recall. Oil change & sediment bowl cleaning, added new gasoline & Sea Foam.

Fired up and ran well, but I did notice a lot of smoke from the stack, something that didn"t happen much a year ago. At first it looked slightly blue, which I believe means oil. Within 3 or 4 minutes it was just about completely white. Doesn"t that indicate water somewhere?

The engine sounded good. It had plenty of power, but there was a lot more smoke than I expected. I ran "er for maybe 20 minutes or so at various engine speeds and it smoked (white) just about the whole time.

For you more experienced than I (which means everyone): What do you think this means? Something to worry about? Anything I need to address?

Any info is very much appreciated.

Thanks, and a wonderful New Year to all.

 

[fixerupper]

Is there an anti-freeze smell to the smoke. First thing to come to mind is water getting into the combustion somewhere, if it's actually smoke and not just the vapor you see in cold weather. Jim

 

[Homesteader]

Hi Jim. Thanks for the reply. I can"t say I noticed an anti-freeze smell. The temp here in SC was in the low 70"s today, (gotta love global warming, eh?), so it shouldn"t have been water vapor. The oil dipstick looked good, not frothy or anything. Any tips as to how I should check it?

 

[trucker40]

I think I would see if any head bolts are loose.

 

[keh]

Remove spark plugs and check to see if there is water on one of them. Check oil on dipstick after tractor sits over night and see if there is water at bottom of dipstick, also see if oil level is higher, indicating water getting into oil. I'm also in SC BTW, neat Spartanburg.

KEH

 

[Dan67]

basic smoke color.. White-water, blue-oil, black-fuel. There is some varitions. But thats the Basic

 

[Clarkbug]

Did you just add the seafoam to your gastank before you started it today?

I know that lots of times depending on the dosage you can get quite a bit of smoke running that stuff. If its diluted in your tank quite a bit, I could be completely off base, but I know that in higher concentrations it can make some smoke...

Good luck finding out the cause!

 

[Thack]

I'd check the dipstick tomorrow and give it a sniff, if that is ok and you do not smell antifreeze when the tractor is running I'd say your good to go.

I think it's just the seafoam doing it's thing, it will put off white smoke and continue to do so until you run it out.

 

[Homesteader]

Thanks very much for all the replies. I"m jammed with work today, but I"ll check it again New Year"s Day. (Messing around with old tractors. Now that"s a good start to a year!)

 

[buickanddeere]

You forgot electricity's colour if it's leaking out of overheated wires?