I'm kind of at the end of my rope here, so I'm putting out a request for ideas.
My 86 B2000 drove great for a month or so after I bought it, then it started smoking in the morning when I'd start it. At first, it would only smoke some days, and the smoke would clear up after it got warm. Eventually, though, it started smoking continuously.
When you start it up from a cold engine, it runs for a few seconds, then the smoke starts to come in more and more. The smoke is quite thick and hangs around for a while. It looks pretty white, smells rather oily but I've never smelled burning coolant so I'm not sure what that would smell like. If I get the engine warmed up so it drops to a warm idle, it'll just put out a little bit of smoke, but if you give it throttle it comes billowing out in proportion to how much throttle you used.
Pulled the plugs, #1 looked wet/oily, the others just looked overly rich because it's spent a lot of time running with the choke on.
Compression is good on all 4 cylinders, 130-140psi each.
I don't see any oil in the coolant, and up until yesterday I didn't see any sign of water in the oil. Yesterday I found a little bit of white foam under the oil cap, but the dipstick looks good so it could possibly be just cold weather + short engine runtimes.
I replaced the valve stem seals because people seem to have a lot of trouble with those on these trucks. I also swapped out the PCV valve because it's cheap. Neither seemed to do much/anything, although I really did learn a hell of a lot swapping those stem seals.
Here's a video of the smoke:
https://youtu.be/Usd1E-7y7cc
So, does anyone have any ideas? At this point I'm thinking it must be something with the head gasket, and rather than try and replace that in the wintertime I'll just sell the truck and cut my losses.