I am about to buy another car. I found a steal, I thought in a 2002 Lexus ES300 with approximately 77500 miles. It gave off heavy exhaust fumes the first time I cranked it and today when I cranked it again at the dealership, it gave off some profuse exhaust fumes but then in both situations it subsided and virtually went away.
Hi, my friend has a 2000 Honda Civic 2 dr. and just today while the car was at an idle i noticed that the car was kind of spitting something out of the exhaust pipe…. I ran my finger threw it and it was oil. I looked under the car and it was dripping out of the muffler… it was a kind of mixture of oil and water….and I was looking on the internet to look for what causes that and I was thinking it was a bad gasket or seal but i wasn’t sure. so I decided to ask you and see what you think?
Hi, I would really appreciate your help on this. I have a 1990 Honda CRX. I just changed my valve cover gasket and now there is smoke coming from the dipstick? Could it be coming from the oil tube? Thank you very much.
I have a Ford F250 that I recently dropped a 460 into from a 1978 Lincoln Continental. The car sat for 14 years not started, I cranked it (with fresh gas from a can) after I got it home, it ran fine so I just did a “poor mans bottom end” on it, I have about 6000 miles on it now and it smokes pretty bad on the deceleration from the passenger side pipe, is this a sign of a broken oil control ring ? I am sure I should have put rings in it while I had it on the stand in the shed when I put a new cam, lifters, valve stem seals, springs, retainers and locks, oil pump, timing set, rod & main bearings. The car had 93K miles on it when I pulled the engine and did not smoke when I started it, and it ran so smooth I thought the compression and rings all were fine… it has come back to bite me in the … well the back side, do you think I should pull the engine and bore it .030 with new pistons and rings, or do an in-frame hone and just new rings.
I have a problem with my car – a Mitsubishi Magna ’95. it runs fine, but when in traffic for any length of time (around 15 monitues) lots of blue smoke starts to come from the exhaust. After moving again for about 1-2 minutes, the smoke goes away. When the smoke happened, the AC was on, but the temperature gauge was still at normal, and the engine seemed to be turning fine without any signs of overheating. No other indicators came on on the dashboard.
I have a mazda RX7 that I recently puchased. The other day I drove it on the highway (35-40 round trip). And the very next day I went to start it up, there was blue smoke (alot) coming from the exhaust. Did i get ripped off?
Thanks for the help on my other question…I have another: How can i test to see if my catalytic converter is clogged or bad and needs replacement?
I have a 1996 ford with 120,000 miles on it. My problem is the no.2 sparkplug is covered in oil. Does this indicate a bad head gasket?
my lebaron is smoking out of where u put in the oil and from the oil dipstick also smoking from exhaust when pressing the gas hard its has an oil drip it did overheat a couple of weeks ago and leakage has been getting worse and im not sure whats causing it to smoke from the heads and dipstick for the oil it is a turbo if that matter i just need to know what i should fix.
my lebaron is smoking out of where u put in the oil and from the oil dipstick also smoking from exhaust when pressing the gas hard its has an oil drip it did overheat a couple of weeks ago and leakage has been getting worse and im not sure whats causing it to smoke from the heads and dipstick for the oil it is a turbo if that matter i just need to know what i should fix.