Oil smoke after headgasket replacement?
 

1990 Accord LX auto

I bought this car with no compression on one cylinder due to a burned exhaust valvle. Aside from the obvious skipping, the engine was running fine with NO smoke.

I removed the cylinder head, replaced the burned valve, installed a new head gasket and put it back together. The skip is gone, it runs fine, but it is smoking like a mosquito truck! It is definately oil smoke. Moreover it puzzles me that I can remove the plug wire from the cylinder that I brought back to life, and it still smokes like crazy.

I rechecked head bolt torque. I don't know how that much oil can be getting into the cylinders. Can anyone think of something that I'm overlooking?

are you sure you put the HG and the right way? It is very easy to put it on backwards.

Thanks for sharing that possibility. I'm gonna feel like a dummy if I did that, but at this point, I'm hoping that's what I find. I'm about to lift the head back up and take a look.