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9 hours ago, The-Acre said:

That sounds like a good result, what mileage are you at?

160K but previous owner was quite literally running it into the ground (collapsed air-suspension)

Similarly to David the OP, I've enjoyed doing my long repair list but there much left to do (belts, a/c, etc)

On 5/31/2020 at 8:07 AM, Antharro said:

Where is all this oil coming from?

My theory is this - there's oil coming from the PCV valve, and from the pressure outlet pipe on the other side of the engine. There's probably also power steering fluid coming from the power steering pump. This builds up, gets sucked into the engine and burns off as nasty smelling blue/white smoke.

Hi having bought my ls430 just before lock-down, I've spent considerable time and money to rectify similar issues.

After cleaning the oil from my throttle body, I managed to replace both rocker cover gaskets, spark plug oil seals, PCV valve, rubber grommet and inlet connection pipe (all for under £50 off Amazon).

With fresh oil, plugs and filters all round (£150 from Lexus) this has all but removed my engine smoke on startup and full acceleration.

Hope this helps!

By the way, later I replaced the coolant temp sensor, installed refurbed injectors and remapped ECU too - what a difference!