befarrer
+1y
98.9% of the time when one of these motors smokes when it is cold is the rings. The oil rings get stuck, and don't contact the cylinder walls when cold, once engine gets to temp, they expand with the pistons, and start sorta working.
I had an 88 that was smoking like a forest fire when cold, and it was rebuild about 100K miles ago, was the rings stuck, but whoever rebuilt it lined up all the ring gaps i a row .