Urgent, oil leak white somke from engine bay

jwa · Post by **jwa** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:09 pm

Found oil leak few days ago with some burning smell, then i changed the rocket cover gasket and the engine oil as well. Engine oil fill to max level.

After I went for a drive, I smell some burning and when open the hood i see some white smoke comming out. Double check rocket cover nothing leak.
When I check the engine level, it drop in between max and min, i refill about 400ml to get it back to max.
Checked coolent is on max level and clear.

any one have experience with this engine, where else can be leaking.
it is mivec if this info help

Post by **I8A4RE** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:51 pm

yeah you have probably just spilt oil on the manifold.

Check to make sure nothing is leaking from gasket and oil filter though to be on the safe side

zuihoujueding · Post by **zuihoujueding** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:47 am

i reckon the same - spill oils onto manifold and white smoke comes out when they get burnt out. Smoke should clear when all spills got bunt out.

jwa · Post by **jwa** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:29 am

the smoke is from the engine bay not from exhaust.

the smell come out when i drive for 15-20minutes,
so it is burnning the engine that leak from engine or burn the oil remain on the engine

Shahrez · Post by **Shahrez** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:00 am

jwa wrote:the smoke is from the engine bay not from exhaust.

the smell come out when i drive for 15-20minutes,
so it is burnning the engine that leak from engine or burn the oil remain on the engine

uhhh its from the engine bay, i.e the manifold. spilt oil on the hot manifold causes white smoke. it comes on after 15-20 mins as the manifold gets hot after that time and the oil reaches its latent heat of vapourisation. so then it evaporates leaving white smoke. it should clear up after a few drives.

Post by **I8A4RE** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:20 am

picks up hat and walks out

Post by **dstocks** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:56 am

OK, to put this as simply as possible. The engine has an exhaust manifold bolted to the front and back of it. These join into a pipe under the engine that runs to the back of the car. Usually the oil will leak out of the engine somehere above the exhaust manifold or the pipe and drip onto it, causing the while smoke.

jwa · Post by **jwa** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:41 pm

I am getting the car to the workshop to do an engine clean up.
Will let you guys know how it goes.

Post by **I8A4RE** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:14 pm

oh now i know what the onion represents

jwa · Post by **jwa** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:49 pm

got all the oily area degrease will drive for fee day to see how bad it is,

because i found the oil spill out to the air intake pipe again, so should be some where still leak, any one got idea