Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers please HELP
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Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
If you put a piece of paper on the exhaust during idle and it flaps around then you could have a bent or burnt valve.
Do a youtube search and see what it looks like.
Also why are you not doing a compression test? If your head gasket is gone then 2 adjacent cylinders will read low. If your valve is burnt/bent then one cylinder will read really low
Do a youtube search and see what it looks like.
Also why are you not doing a compression test? If your head gasket is gone then 2 adjacent cylinders will read low. If your valve is burnt/bent then one cylinder will read really low
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If comp test answers your questions then you owe me a case of Carlton Dry.
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I think he owes everyone that tried to help
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I always share!vipfto wrote:I think he owes everyone that tried to help
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Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
So after driving it a couple times the smoke has now completely stopped and the car seems perfectly fine and I don't seem to be loosing any coolant either. I will still get that compression test done sometime just in case, but for now I will enjoy my non leaky clean as fk engine bay FTO. Time to focus on some cosmetic mods for a while before I rip it apart again, probably for a manual conversion.
Thanks for all the "c**nts fkd" and "take it to a mechanic" suggestions
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Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Also I figured out why the thermostat open = no smoke. Turns out the radiator fan was strong enough to disperse the smoke when it turned on. If u stand behind your car when the fan comes on u can actually feel a breeze on your leg, so that was blowing the smoke apart and made it seem like it wasn't there.
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Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
So you are saying that there was never any smoke coming out through the exhaust?
If so then you have been mis-informing us.
If you are getting smoke around the engine bay then it is probably burning off coatings from new parts and cleaning solution residue.
If so then you have been mis-informing us.
If you are getting smoke around the engine bay then it is probably burning off coatings from new parts and cleaning solution residue.
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Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
What happened to the "no oil getting to valve covers" problem?
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Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Na na na, it was only coming out of the exhaust, the fan at the front of the car blew hard enough that it reached the exhaust and dispersed the smoke that was coming out of it so it looked like the smoke was gone when it was still coming out, u just couldnt see it cus it was being blow apart by the fan. Then when the fan stopped the smoke appeared to "return".PHIL069 wrote:So you are saying that there was never any smoke coming out through the exhaust?
If so then you have been mis-informing us.
If you are getting smoke around the engine bay then it is probably burning off coatings from new parts and cleaning solution residue.
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Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Basically I was just being paranoid, as Dras suggested, let the car run longer cus it takes a while for the oil to get up their and he was right.spetz wrote:What happened to the "no oil getting to valve covers" problem?
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Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Well.. yeah.. especially when it's cold, cars will have white smoke coming from the exhaust on start up..Funugs wrote:Na na na, it was only coming out of the exhaust, the fan at the front of the car blew hard enough that it reached the exhaust and dispersed the smoke that was coming out of it so it looked like the smoke was gone when it was still coming out, u just couldnt see it cus it was being blow apart by the fan. Then when the fan stopped the smoke appeared to "return".PHIL069 wrote:So you are saying that there was never any smoke coming out through the exhaust?
If so then you have been mis-informing us.
If you are getting smoke around the engine bay then it is probably burning off coatings from new parts and cleaning solution residue.
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My head hurts. Old man is going to bed
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Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Alright, you tell me, I took this video in the afternoon on a not too cold day. Does it seem like condensation?Daniel2019 wrote:Well.. yeah.. especially when it's cold, cars will have white smoke coming from the exhaust on start up..Funugs wrote:Na na na, it was only coming out of the exhaust, the fan at the front of the car blew hard enough that it reached the exhaust and dispersed the smoke that was coming out of it so it looked like the smoke was gone when it was still coming out, u just couldnt see it cus it was being blow apart by the fan. Then when the fan stopped the smoke appeared to "return".PHIL069 wrote:So you are saying that there was never any smoke coming out through the exhaust?
If so then you have been mis-informing us.
If you are getting smoke around the engine bay then it is probably burning off coatings from new parts and cleaning solution residue.
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