Holy Smokes, and a buttload!!!

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As I tried to pass a semi on the freeway just 20 minutes ago, I saw all this, either white or light blue smoke coming out from underneath my car. I have cutoffs. I floored it again, and again, it did it. As I came to a stop, I put in park and revved it up to about 5000 and no smoke at all. As the car was rolling, I put in N and rompped it and no smoke again. I then decided to run it, from 1st to 3rd at WOT, and there it was again. What is going on? I really don't hope water is going into my engine. Help me out, please.

 

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It might be an oil leak. When your parked it dosent drip on the exhaust but when your moving it does???

 

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Sounds like he tried revving it in nuetral while the car was moving and it didn't smoke then, so that would eliminate an oil leak. Sounds like maybe the rings are wore out? How many miles on the engine?

 

95Vert

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About 67,000 miles. Is it a bitch to switch those out?

 

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Oh, this is a used engine I got from a 97 mountaineer. I have had it for about 4 months now.

 

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You have to tear the engine completely apart to change the rings. It's wierd that would be the problem tho with only 67K....Mine had 167K when I pulled the motor and it hardly smoked at all, if any.

 

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Well, any other options? Or how can I find out for sure?

 

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I'm pretty sure blue smoke=oil and white smoke=water, so you'll need to find out for sure what color it is.

It could also be worn valve seals or oil getting into the intake, but as to how to find out what it really is I don't think I can be much help. Hopefully someone a little more knowledgable will chime in shortly.

 

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Ok, so if the intake has oil, how do I fix that? Do you know? Also, when you say that blue=oil, what is wrong with my oil? Will a simple oil change be of help?

 

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blue smoke=burning oil, so an oil change wont fix it.

Do you still have the tube from your valve cover going into the intake tube right before the throttle body? You can check for oil around there, but other than that I can't really help much...

 

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Thanks man, hopefully someone who has a little more knowledge can help me out in more detail. NO FLAME INTENDED!!!

 

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Hey Mike, I just opened up my hood and the pcv was unhooked from the lower intake. Not just the tube, but the entire pcv assembly. It sprayed oil all over my firewall. What could be causing this? I know this HAS to be the problem. Well, I hope.

 

1slow95

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Yeah, sounds like you found your problem.

 

95Vert

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I'm going to put up another thread since noone chimed into this one.