InfiniteGSX
20+ Year Contributor
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- Dec 10, 2002
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Tijeras,
New Mexico
This year I had a blown turbo which was causing the car to smoke through the exhaust, Everyone argued with me on my youtube video. I only made the video because I thought it was strange seeing my car smoke. Its never smoked, even under boost.
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I made it clear that the smoking got worse, so I replaced the turbo with my stock turbo and smoking stopped! Which ofcourse meant it was in fact the damn turbo smoking.
It hasn't smoked at all with that old motor. I just installed a new motor and it did NOT smoke at all at first. It is an old motor, 180k miles, was from an automatic.... Runs great. But I always use Synthetic and I know it cleans. I know all too well cause I've had two heads go from bronze to completely clean because of Synthetic oils. So I think that the synthetic oils has cleaned something that was damaged, now causing the car to smoke at idle. If I rev it, it will blow all the smoke out and eventually stop till the car sits at idle again.
Valve Stem Seals will cause smoke at startup right? I do know that my stupid friend plugged my vented catch can (no more pcv valve), which prob was causing alot of crank case pressure and the car would smoke soo bad it would cause the car to become invisible in the smoke when I were to stop fast or take turns really hard. I pulled the plug off of the catch can allowing it to vent again like its supposed to. and it stopped smoking like that. Now it just does the light smoke at idle and the first couple revs.
Is that valve Stem Seals? Is there anything I can put in my oil to be a temp fix for this?
My main question is, since I believe it to be valve stem seals, since I can't come into a conclusion of what else it could be, besides turbo which I doubt it is because its smoking from the head, not the turbo. Is there a way to replace the valve stem seals without pulling the damn head to compress the springs...?
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I made it clear that the smoking got worse, so I replaced the turbo with my stock turbo and smoking stopped! Which ofcourse meant it was in fact the damn turbo smoking.
It hasn't smoked at all with that old motor. I just installed a new motor and it did NOT smoke at all at first. It is an old motor, 180k miles, was from an automatic.... Runs great. But I always use Synthetic and I know it cleans. I know all too well cause I've had two heads go from bronze to completely clean because of Synthetic oils. So I think that the synthetic oils has cleaned something that was damaged, now causing the car to smoke at idle. If I rev it, it will blow all the smoke out and eventually stop till the car sits at idle again.
Valve Stem Seals will cause smoke at startup right? I do know that my stupid friend plugged my vented catch can (no more pcv valve), which prob was causing alot of crank case pressure and the car would smoke soo bad it would cause the car to become invisible in the smoke when I were to stop fast or take turns really hard. I pulled the plug off of the catch can allowing it to vent again like its supposed to. and it stopped smoking like that. Now it just does the light smoke at idle and the first couple revs.
Is that valve Stem Seals? Is there anything I can put in my oil to be a temp fix for this?
My main question is, since I believe it to be valve stem seals, since I can't come into a conclusion of what else it could be, besides turbo which I doubt it is because its smoking from the head, not the turbo. Is there a way to replace the valve stem seals without pulling the damn head to compress the springs...?