white smoke
 

Pulled up outside my house today and I noticed quite a lot of white smoke coming from my exhaust,the engine was warmed up so it couldnt be that it was cold. I changed the oil 2000 miles ago and swopped from semi syn to fully syn castrol gtx magnatec, since then the engine has run smoother but it has used a little oil where as before it didnt use any, the mileage is bang on 80k which isnt a lot for this car, does anybody know how to cure this problem? cheers guys

RE: white smoke
 

oil leak into the engine...

RE: white smoke
 

Isn't white smoke burning coolant? Burning oil is bluish smoke.

RE: white smoke
 

my RX-7 used to burn a LOT of white smoke. my problem was definitely oil leaking into the engine.

but still, it could be coolant.

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white smoke=antifreeze=blown head gasket or cracked head=[:@][:@]

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ya when i blew my head gaskit it was the coolent getting into the engine, it was alot of white smoke

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I dont think that the coolant has got into the engine cos theres no cross contamination, checked the oil before and it looks normal. well pi**ed me off cos i look after my civ real well so I dont understand how this has happend.

RE: white smoke
 

If its a blown head gasket, there might not be any cross contamination. The coolant leaks from the water jackets into the cylinder where it is promptly burned. I don't think that the oil gets that high up into C.C. b/c it would be burned by the spark plug or the hot exhaust gases.

RE: white smoke
 

did you check your oil dip stick then?

RE: white smoke
 

Yeah checked dipstick, oil is normal colour and near the upper marker, and coolant seems normal to.