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Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:14 pm
by spetz
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
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:06 pm
by Daniel2019
If comp test answers your questions then you owe me a case of Carlton Dry.
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:29 pm
by vipfto
I think he owes everyone that tried to help
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:30 pm
by Daniel2019
vipfto wrote:I think he owes everyone that tried to help
I always share!
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:21 pm
by Funugs
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
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:29 pm
by Funugs
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.
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 10:13 am
by PHIL069
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.
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:13 pm
by spetz
What happened to the "no oil getting to valve covers" problem?
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:08 pm
by Funugs
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.
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".
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:10 pm
by Funugs
spetz wrote:What happened to the "no oil getting to valve covers" problem?
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.
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:20 pm
by Daniel2019
Funugs wrote: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.
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".
Well.. yeah.. especially when it's cold, cars will have white smoke coming from the exhaust on start up..
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:37 pm
by Bennoz
My head hurts. Old man is going to bed
Re: Blowing white smoke, no oil getting to valve covers plea
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:51 pm
by Funugs
Daniel2019 wrote:Funugs wrote: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.
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".
Well.. yeah.. especially when it's cold, cars will have white smoke coming from the exhaust on start up..
Alright, you tell me, I took this video in the afternoon on a not too cold day. Does it seem like condensation?
http://i.imgur.com/hkhwWzQ.gifv
