I recently rebuilt an LT 80 for my Son, and it runs great except it seems to smoke a lot. It's white smoke and seems to be from oil as there is some oil dripping from the exhaust...... Any idea? I have already resealed the engine.

 

too much oil injecting in??? all oil or is it thinner like mostly gas with some oil in it? ours was doing that until I read about how the thing floods out to no end if you don't get a gas shut off on the thing. fixed the horrible starting problem we had too, now can start on a single pull of the cord. Once shut down ours was dumping all kinds of gas into the motor, I could drain gas out of the pipe there was so much and it would pour out when running until it warmed up.

 

Looks to be all oil, and I can see around the oil pump where it may be seeping out a little. It doesn't seem to affect the operation of it

 

sounds different than what I had going on. find LT80 and ask his opinion, that guy knows his $hit about these machines. do a search on any LT80 topic and he is in there with responses. great guy!!

 

Will do, thanks

 

They all seem to leak a lil out at the pipe so I don't think it's a big issue as far as causing trouble. Once broke in, it may be better.
Did you have the machine befor the rebuild? If so did it smoke before the rebuild? Using same oil?
The pipe may be full of stuff (oil/gas/residue). If so heat it up red hot in a fire and blow compressed air thru it.**CAREFUL it'll throw flames** [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Yes, I bought it broke and rebuilt it from the frame up. Didn't start before that though. I thought maybe it was getting too much oil, where do I adjust that at (no manual). Thanks for all the help.

 

There is no oil adjustment.

 

Some have suggested capping it off and running mixture. Your thought?

 

You can. Premix is a good thing, altho If your doing it solely to fix this oil leak/smoking problem, it may not do that.
A good synthetic oil at 32:1 works well for premix.