floyd r turbo
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My 2012 (I believe) Z4 ran fine last year with 334 hrs and just a couple of weeks ago and then tried to start and it would run for a few seconds but blow a lot of white smoke and then die. All this smoke was more relevant for a water cooled motor with blown head gasket but not air cooled motor. So disgusted and tried started couple of more times, still huge clouds of smokes, let it sit for days while I looked online for an answer. The oil looks spic and span, haven't changed it yet for the new season but frankly shocked it looked so clean. But I only used it late August, Sept, Oct of last year on under 4 acres. It doesn't seem to be making any noises out of the ordinary and now its starting and running ok but a little blue smoke out of exhaust that was not there last season. Kind of afraid to run it. Guess I should do compression check to make sure valve seat or guide or valve itself is not causing issue. Before, when it was smoking real bad, it was barely running and saw some oil drops blowing out of exhaust pipe. ???? Anyone??? This really could be anything like rings but I'm baffled and really disappointed about what I'm reading about Kawasaki motors.