Urgent help requested

[98eclipseRS]

alright i need your guys help quick. Here's the problem i replaced my valve cover the other day cause my old one was cracked and now my car is leaking oil. I am almost posotive that its leaking from a bad valve cover gasket. Here's where it gets weird there is oil all over my intake mani runners(on the top part) and oil splashed all over the fuel rail, injectors, and all over the valve cover where it looks like it has sprayed back, but my friend was following me home tonight and said taht he saw a whole bunch of white smoke come out of my exhuast. So my questions are how much oil can out from between the valve cover and the head? there is alot of it on my intake mani and there was quite the oil patch on my drive way? also could this cause smoke to come out of the exhaust or was it just smoke form under the hood comming out and looking like it? My friend said that when headgaskets go they produce white smoke in the exhaust i alwasy thought it was blue smoke? Sorry about the run on sentance but i have almost had it with this car i am seriously considering selling the car if this is anything major. Anyways any ehlpe will be more than appreciated.
-zach-

 

[RaysTsi]

I always thought white smoke was from a bad turbo, which needs oil to cool it off, Have you checked it for free play?

 

[98eclipseRS]

well i got home tonight and the engine and shit is still way to hot so tomorow mourning will be my diagnostics day

 

[98eclipseRS]

now that i think of it a bad turbo doesn't sound crazy, never thought about it but it could be that. what are some signs of a blown turbo? Sometimes when i drive my car doesn't want to move unless im hitting full boost. LIke the turbo doens't want to work until about 3.5k and then all of a sudden power comes like no other but only for full boost. If i am just driving and try to give it more power noting just struglling. DAmn i sound like a newb.
-zach-
P.S.-anyone here have any suggestions for a way to get money back from someone ripping you off online. I could use all the money i can get right now and this guy has 400$ of my money i sent him for a uicp, gm mas/translator. any help onthis would be greatly apprecited also.

 

[GaRn]

if thats the case then your turbo is prolly fine... white smoke usually means blown headgasket.. coolant and water are burning.. i dont see where the oil would come from.. maybe crankcase breather? did you hook everything back up right? but that sounds like alot of oil for that though..

 

[Nomad666]

Go to this site to report the guy that has your money http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp

 

[98eclipseRS]

thanks for all the reaplies you guys. ya the headgasket is what it seemd like but there is only oil on top of the intake mani runners if it was a blown head gasket wouldn't there be oil all over the engine bay?

 

[Keaka26]

a blown headgasket usually causes coolant to leak into your oil and vice versa.

Im almost sure that you've got yourself a leaking valve cover gasket. If you dont torque those valve cover bolts down JUST right, bad things usually follow. Too tight and you crack your valve cover and/or strip the bolt holes in the head. Too loose and you just leak oil all OVER the damn place. The torque specs on those bolts is about 4 ft/lbs, which is next to nothing.

 

[Defiant]

And how old is the gasket on your 71O cap?

 

[98eclipseRS]

i figured it out and i think i solved all my problems i think i was just paraniod about the head gasket. Anyway i took off the valve cover today and i find that the gasket for it is all but destroyed in one area. I don't know why it was semi new when i put it on. I had an extra brand new one sitting around so i put that on and its all good now. Only problem now is i have oil that is just sitting on my intake mani smoking real bad and my brand new white painted valve cover is yellow/brown on the side of it . Once again thanks for all the replies.