My car misfires, idles poorly, runs rich and it failed emission - please help!

[Jim Wright]

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 01:06  PM, Fred L wrote:

> BTW, when I rev this car, I think I see some darker smoke out the tail
> pipe.
> It's not thick smoke but it's either grey or grey/blue.

It's burning oil, you've got a bad seal somewhere.  Might want to do a
compression test before anything else to eliminate that as a problem,
but I've got a hunch that's where your problem lies.