HELP! Anyone good with Chevy 2.2L Ecotec Engines???
03-09-2009, 03:15 PM
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HELP! Anyone good with Chevy 2.2L Ecotec Engines???
My mothers car started smoking from the engine bay today.
-Smoke is coming from rear of engine
-Started out as a large cloud of smoke and now it's only smoking a little bit.
-No codes on Dash. Engine temp is 195 @ Idle
-Car has 100,000k on the clock, it's a 2002.
-Car drives fine. But you can see smoke billowing from the engine bay if you pop the hood.
Headgasket?
-Smoke is coming from rear of engine
-Started out as a large cloud of smoke and now it's only smoking a little bit.
-No codes on Dash. Engine temp is 195 @ Idle
-Car has 100,000k on the clock, it's a 2002.
-Car drives fine. But you can see smoke billowing from the engine bay if you pop the hood.
Headgasket?
03-09-2009, 03:46 PM
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03-09-2009, 07:48 PM
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I would chime in more, but I'm almost retarded when it actually comes down to how a car functions and I can't remember. Seems like his just kept overheating though, it would randomly shut off and everything. It had right around 100k miles when it started I think.
03-09-2009, 09:58 PM
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Can doing an oil change wrong pop a headgasket?
Wrong oil? Too much? Not Enough?
I just found out she got her oil changed at one of those damn "In and Out" places, and I bet they screwed it up.
03-12-2009, 11:35 AM
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what color smoke?
these are just off the top of my head.
white= coolant (blown head gasket or cracked head/block)
black= oil (leaking valve seals, malfunctioning PCV system)
blue (somewhat black)= fuel (current vehicles will actually burn off excess fuel going through the exhaust, so this is harder to detect). check MAF (or MAP sensor)- it will one or the other. check the upstream oxygen sensor. these should throw engine codes, so check the above stuff first.
these are just off the top of my head.
white= coolant (blown head gasket or cracked head/block)
black= oil (leaking valve seals, malfunctioning PCV system)
blue (somewhat black)= fuel (current vehicles will actually burn off excess fuel going through the exhaust, so this is harder to detect). check MAF (or MAP sensor)- it will one or the other. check the upstream oxygen sensor. these should throw engine codes, so check the above stuff first.
03-12-2009, 06:08 PM
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I'm pretty sure Speedjunkie hit the nail on the head. The smoke was white, but after having the rear main seal replaced it stopped smoking. Now it's back to being a piece of crap 
03-13-2009, 11:25 AM
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