aamievaMKR

does anyone know what can cause lots of smoke with a little bit of water. but the car isnt over heating. last year the car was ran with very low oil pretty much none after oil was added started smoking but stopped then didnt do it again til now when synthetic oil was added. can it be a head gasket?????

tempoffroad

that would be my guess. wish i could help more. does it smoke the same out of both sides. not sure how much the crossover in the pipes would make it smoke on both sides if it was one head

n0th1n2kn0vv

Does it have a funny smell to it? Put your hand near the exhaust and feel for slimyness. If so, your burning coolant and chances are, its a blown head gasket.

defconfire

Having a small amount of moisture from the exhaust is normal, its parts of the combustion process.

I don't know the exact stoichiometry for gasoline but when you burn a hydrocarbon it looks something like this: Fuel + O2 => Heat + CO2 + H2O


I could be a bad PCV valve when my went bad recently, (I freaked out because I though it was my valve guide seals), I was getting a good amount of smoke when I would start the car.

BlackMage

what color is the smoke?

jwog666

sometimes when you switch to synthetic oil on a higher mileage engine, you will start to burn oil more rapidly. happened on my pickup. switched back to conventional, no more smoke.

aamievaMKR

the smell stinks, looks white, the car was already having valve problems, making clicking noise. this isnt my stang its a saturn. theres no water in the engine bc i changed the oil put in 20-50 and used the lucus gasket rebuilder, didnt help. so if the water is fine its oil bc she was burning a qt of oil a week. any idea???

jwog666

depending on the year some of the saturn engines were known for oil consumption. i have replaced a number of them for bad rings and bad valve guides. i would have a shop perform a cylinder leakdown test to determine where the oil is going and go from there.

aamievaMKR

ok, do u have any clue what its going to run me??

jwog666

depends, if its the valve guides, the cost of a valve job, if its the rings, a used motor. i cant quote you numbers. depends on your location.