38racing wrote:I had a single cylinder briggs ohv that ran fine with no noticeable smoke but kept consuming oil. Due to reputation I pulled the head and found bad head gasket.
Yep, if I cannot figure out what going on, it 's going to eventually require a take apart inspection. Just too much smoke to try and ignor. It's been cloudy for several days and I suspect some of them BLUE clouds were put up by this engine and my testing.
It has lots of good external parts and I have another engine to set on the mower.
I was hoping to find maybe only one head gasket leaking but not so for now. I have bore mics so as to check taper and out of round, etc, right now I'm just curious as to what is going on due to the leak down tests being so great, compression good, intake valves bushing and seals ok. I'll try the leak down with the piston at the bottom of the bore later. Just never seen oil smoke this bad on a small engine and not find a hint problem before taking one apart.
Don't want to put very many $$$'s into this engine, such as rings, and gasket set even if the cylinders are good..
Would just part it out.