Well Theres alot of smoke coming from the breather cap on my engine and its getting into the cab. its a open breather cap. Also when I start the car a puff of white smoke comes out the exhuast. The guy I bought it from said the engine was rebuild a year ago so the dont think the piston rings are worn. What else could it be?
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coming from there

Yes the top of the breather is opened. I have no tube that runs back into the air filter. I was thinking about ordering one of these:
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and running a tube back into the air filter. Would that work?

 

Yes, i have heard, that when you get the white smoke, it's blowby, which means the piston rings are worn. My car does the same thing. Actually, it just started doing it.

 

White smoke is water/coolant, gray/blue is oil. It's not the rings. Check the oil, if it's milky then it's a head gasket leaking coolant into the oil/combustion chamber.

 

ok, the smoke coming from the exhuast, is probably condensation(if it goes away), but the smoke coming from the valve cover, indicates the rings.

 

not if the oil is milky. Water in the oil would also smoke out through the breahter.

If it comes from the breather it could also be valve guide seals are shrunken/bad causing valve stem blowby. The piston rings would show up through the exhaust..

I've never seen bad piston rings show up through smoke in the valve cover. Bad stem seals yes, but not rings.

 

Thanks for the replys. The guy I bought it from said the engine was rebuilt about a year ago. But around how much does it cost to get the piston rings replaced. And how hard is it to do?

 

on older vehicles like that one, it's pretty easy but you have to remove the head(s) and drop the oil pan. To do it right? A few days, since you will want to do the valve stem seals in the head while you got it pulled apart and might as well do the rods and mains while you're in there as well as a few other things. To do a quickie of piston rings only...a weekend. One day for the experienced.

 

I think i need to replace my stem seals anyways. I might go start that right now.

 

I've you've got compressed air and the proper fitting end you can do the stem seals without pullin the head.

 

Im going to replace the stem seals and see if its that. Cause if the owner I bought it from was telling the truth I dont think the piston rings could go bad in a year.or could they?

Deft00: How can you do it with compressed air? Seems like it would be alot easier that way.