What would cause excessive blue tint smoke to come out of exhaust

Tiny
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I recently but a new head gasket, new valve, seals, new camshaft seal, new valve cover gasket and spark plug seals, and my car is still burning a large amount of oil. Would it be my oil control rings that are bad
Monday, August 27th, 2012 AT 3:00 AM

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Tiny
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It is probably the piston rings letting oil get by and into the combustion chamer. You took care of the head gasket and valve stem seals, so that is about all that is left.
You could do a compression test and ee if it is below spec then you would know if you might need to re-ring it which is not hard to do in a Honda. You would have to re-do the head gasket and then pull the crank with pistons out the bottom by removing oil pan. Then you would hone cylinders, measure and get proper rings for a good seal. Remember to keep parts in the same order when dis-assembling it as they must go back into the same place when assembling it.
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Monday, August 27th, 2012 AT 3:05 AM
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Seeing as I am short on money would it be wise to just change out the oil control ring or since I am down there just rering the whole thing
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Monday, August 27th, 2012 AT 3:22 AM
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You have a bad leak and you are not addressing it correctly. I have told you to rectify the leak and run the engine to get residual oil out of the exhaust system but seems you do not believe what I have told you.

Have a good day and good luck.
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Monday, August 27th, 2012 AT 7:07 AM
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Look guy no offense but I did fix the leak and I did run my engine for about a couple hours and it was still blowing lots of clouds of smoke. I have nothing against your advice its just I need a new look on things since I have done everything you said to do now. One more piece of information I did take off the head again and when I pulled it off there was nothing but oil in cylinder 2, 3, and 4. Cylinder number 1 was fine
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Monday, August 27th, 2012 AT 2:41 PM
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I would recheck the valve seals. Make sure you have the correct size.
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Monday, August 27th, 2012 AT 6:03 PM
Tiny
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The valve seals are felpro they are one size fits all
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Monday, August 27th, 2012 AT 10:40 PM
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With so much oil in cylinders, I don't think they are fitting that well. For this engine I would only use OEM valve seals.
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Monday, August 27th, 2012 AT 11:09 PM
Tiny
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Just throwing this out there but do you think it could be that some of the valves are getting stuck from carbon build up therefore letting oil seep into the combustion chamber. When I took off the head the last time my valves were pretty black and had lots of build up on it
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 AT 3:16 AM
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No. Carbon buildup would only affect engine compression which would result in rough idling, difficult starting and performance issues.

The valve seals are to prevent the oil from getting into the cylinders and exhaust system. If the valve guides are worn, which are rare for this engine, they would result in leakages through the seals as the valves would be tilting when in operations.
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 AT 5:29 AM
Tiny
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Ok so in doing a little research I found that my pcv valve and breather box can also be causing oil do burn off. When I took off my pcv valve there was oil in it and all in the tubes when I disconnected the breather box off there was nothing but oil in it my question is if I clean it out would this have been the problem also too I replaced the valve seals with oem ones and it was still burning oil. Also did a compression check and all cylinders blew 180
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 AT 6:28 PM
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You need a little trime for all these oil in the system to clear off. Whatever oil you can clear from the breather would reduce the time but this is not the main cause of the oil burning.

I would not do anything else for now except let the engine run for at least an hour or so to see if the smoke reduces. Remember to check the oil level. With what you have, a 3 day running period would be just nice before you come to any conclusion.
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 AT 6:33 PM
Tiny
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Okay
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 AT 6:55 PM
Tiny
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Okay so I came to the conclusion that while letting it run a guy came up to me and told me that it is the valve seals put that they were probably not seated right or may have pushed up while installing so have to take apart and reseat them in
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 AT 2:23 AM
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When installing the valve seals, you MUST not force them in. They gets seated easily while tapping on a 11 mm socket or equivalent. If you use too much force, the seals would get damaged.
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 AT 10:31 AM
Tiny
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Okay when I first installed them I just pushed them in with my fingers as tight as I can
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 AT 3:21 PM
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Actually that should be sufficient but pushing on the seal lips can damage them. Did you check if all of them were seated correctly?
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Thursday, August 30th, 2012 AT 7:52 AM
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How do I check to make sure they are seated correctly
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Thursday, August 30th, 2012 AT 3:05 PM
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Note the seated position. They should be uniform for each valve and ensure you are not able to pull them out after installation. If you lightly tap them in, you can feel if they are seated fully when the tapping feel is different.

If you can measure the height of each valve, that would be more accurate.
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Thursday, August 30th, 2012 AT 6:02 PM
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Okay I am definitely stumped, after pulling apart the cylinder head again the valve seals weren't seated correctly reseated made sure they were all nice and tight and reinstalled everything. Ran it for two hours and still smoked. The funny thing about it this time is after I turned it off for a while and started it back up it wouldn't smoke that much at first start than a minute or two later it would start smoking a little bit more and than when I gave it a little throttle thats when it went back to its normal smoking routine. Officially stumped
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Saturday, September 1st, 2012 AT 8:05 PM
Tiny
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That is normal. There are residual oil in the system and it needs time to clear up. This is what I have been trying to tell you all along if you do not have problems with valve seals.

Give the engine a few hours of running time, if driving time is short, it might take forever to cealr up the smoke. They would come only after the exhaust system heats up.
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Saturday, September 1st, 2012 AT 8:13 PM

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