White Smoke / Car Is Smoking White [Merged 7-9]

[Apeximprt2nr]

Alright guys, well I just finished my 14B install in my 95 GSX. All is well besides some minor oil leaks on the return line and the SS feed line at the filter housing. There was also a VERY minor coolant leak from the front banjo bolt on the turbo. I tightened it a tad and I think i went away. Now the turbo is spooling really late because I think there may be a leak before the turbo.
Now on to the problems.

1. The turbo does not smoke at all besides at WOT sometimes it blows out whiteish grey smoke. I'm trying to think of where it could be burning coolant. It never did this before the turbo install.

2. There was some white smoke the past 2 days at the manifold. I'm thinking its the shitload of PB Blaster that I sprayed all over the car but I'm not sure.

3. There's a smell coming from my engine that I can smell if I pop my hood and it becomes more noticeable when I'm driving and really get on it. It smells like burning plastic sort of, with a mix of burning rubber. The lower heat shield is not on the car because it's a pain to get on and I haven't put it back on because I haven't had time. Nothing is touching anything hot so I 'm confused...The only possible thing is maybe I pout on a new 4 ply exhaust mani. gasket as well as antiseize on most of the bolts and the turbo-mani. bolts.

Any help? Thanks.

 

[waterman412]

on the way to the store to buy stuff for it, and it started knocking REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD. it idles around 1100 rpm now though rather that the 850 from before. i have no acceleration what so ever but it still runs, just makes alot of noise and there is a major loss of power.

 

[Boost92awd]

on the way to the store to buy stuff for it, and it started knocking REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD. it idles around 1100 rpm now though rather that the 850 from before. i have no acceleration what so ever but it still runs, just makes alot of noise and there is a major loss of power.

Dont drive it anymore till you fix it, your just going to mess things up even more if you keep driving it like that.

 

[waterman412]

alright, even with the knocking is it still only the head gasket ?
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[stevo911]

Knocking can be caused by the watery oil if enough coolant gets into the oil turns it into nothing.

 

[waterman412]

how do i check if the oil is milky, drain alittle from the oil pan?

and how do i check the head gasket

 

[stevo911]

Pull out the dipstick...does it look like oil on the end or milk?

 

[shortyskater]

only way to really tell if its the gasket is to pull the head. if the oil is milky though i would look at changing the gasket ASAP.

 

[waterman412]

alright the only thing i noticed was that the oil i put in yesterday is now gone and its back to the same level. the oil color seemed fine , didnt seem milky at all.

 

[stevo911]

Is any of your coolant going missing? If you open the oil cap can you see oil splashing?

 

[dsm96eclipse]

this just started a couple days ago im having to put coolant every other day and i looked today because i noticed a leak and it looks like the water pipe but its too hard too tell ### its dripping from the whole right side bottom and its blowing white smoke now pleassee hellp....

 

[dsm96eclipse]

sorry guys i mean the driver side

 

[magna]

Do a leakdown and a carbon test. I think your head gasket is leaking.

 

[untouchablecc]

I just ran into this recently. It was the gasket rubber ring that seals the water pipe to the water pump. Does your oil looked milky if so that is a head gasket.

 

[ed_dogg23]

This could be a # of things, one of which would be a blown turbo. Is the white smoke coming from the tail pipe or from under the hood? Second could be the head gasket. Is it building tons of coolant preasure? Some trouble shooting would tell us lots of info. . . . .

 

[dsm96eclipse]

oil isnt milky did an oil change 3 days ago oil is being burned fast

 

[dsm96eclipse]

white smoke is comming from the tail pipe turbos brand new also its a t28 so i dont know im up sh*ts creek without a paddle

 

[ed_dogg23]

Sorry to hear this bro. Looks like its time for a head gasket and studs!!!

 

[knochgoon24]

Yeah, sounds like a head gasket.

 

[DJTanberg]

Yes sir, just did a head gasket a on a new motor i built for a buddie. dam chinaman head gasket. water, oil comin from frt of the motor. smokin like a bandit headgasket was only good for 20 psi. pull it an do new gaskets n valve job n arps

 

[AWD-TSI]

did u check ## water pump. it might be goin also.

 

[MichaelSuch]

Possibilities are Water Pump, O-ring on the water pipe, and head gasket. I'd recommend doing a compression and leak down test, you could be burning oil for a number of things, rings, valve stem seals, it could be mixing in with the coolant.

It sounds like it's time to do some maintainence. Let us know what your results are from the compression and leak down test. But I would say you have a number of problems and it's time to refresh the head, new head gasket, water pump, and timing components.

 

[dsm96eclipse]

i checked the coolant this morning and weird thing was it was fine car didn't smoke so im thrown off i have another 4g at my house but thats if worst comes to worse

 

[slow gst]

Ok I've done my searching on white smoke coming from the exhaust and it looks like my head gasket is blown. How hard is it to replace and where is a good place I can pick one up?

 

[killerwhale]

I'm pretty sure there are more telltale signs than just white smoke if the headgasket is gone. Like does your car overheat? When you headgasket is gone smoke will pour out of your hood.

 

[2gawdtsi]

There are other options other than headgasket. Like bad rings or bad seal in your turbo.