Smoke from in the engine?

[RI-SHO]

Today I ran the engine a little hard for about 5min, and went i stopped to check the oil at home(leaks about a quart a week or 200-300miles), and i can see a light screen of smoke coming out the hole where dipstick is. Does that mean my SHO is also burning oil? Or is this normal considering the engine was still pretty hot after my "little" drive.

 

[93nighthawk]

Are you sure it was actually comming out of the Dip stick hole or around it? If it is coming out of the hole you are running low and/or extremely hot. If around, I am thinking valve cover gastket, or worst case scinereo, God forbid, head gasket. Either way it does not sound good. 1qt a week sounds like a major problem that needs attention quickly.

Eric

 

[RI-SHO]

Yeah its a rear main seal leak which is bad but I am putting it off(not too much longer) so the flywheel can also get done at the same time. Well my temp gauge even while running hard barly gets to the O-R area, so worse case scenrio its too cool.

The headgasket is what I am trying to single out, I am hoping it isnt that. I also have noticed the light amount of smoke when I open the oil cap to add a quart. And the rest of gaskets all around even front main seal have all been replaced(about a yr old) so I doubt any of those are leaking.

 

[93nighthawk]

Have you checked the color of the coolant? Is it brownish? If so head gasket. Sense you are dumping at least a quart a week in it would be hard to tell if there is coolant in the engine oil (foaming). (The bad oil is leaving the car with the coolant in it, which might save your engine.) When I open my oil cap smoke does not come out so I think this is not good and I am out of ideas why, unless it is the type of oil you use.

Eric

 

[Bizzy]

Temp sensors have been known to go bad. I'd get a hand held sensor and check the temp of your engine after a nice ride to see how accurate the one in your car really is. You could be running super hot and not even know it.

Another good way to tell if you have a head gasket problem is to look at your exhaust while running. Is there smoke...what color is it...and does it smell like coolant? The smell of it burning is like no other...has a sickening sweet smell to it.

Either way, get to it soon. You don't want to mess your head up.

 

[BeatDaSHO]

my oil smokes out of my oil cap when i open it. I thought this was normal.....I opened the oil cap on my friends 89 camaro rs and it did the same thing. is this normal?

Greg

 

[RI-SHO]

Nope oil looks clean and coolant is still bright green, only smell I get when I rv it nice is fuel b/c it has been rich for a few mths. I also get black puffs of smoke when I shift hard, more noticible at nite with the headlights. I'm pretty sure the temp sensor still works b/c awhile back when my t-stat went it flew straight up to the red and I shut it off and pushed it with a bud to my house.

When I first saw this smoke I thought it was normal too, but then headgaskets jumped into m head, hard to narrow it down the huge rear main seal leak.

 

[93nighthawk]

I am thinking that sense you are loosing so much oil out of the rear main seal, it is getting everywhere and buring on the exaust. Sense the coolant looks good, I doubt it is a head gasket.

Eric

 

[sdpatt]

If you are seeing oil from the dipstick tube, remove the oil fill cap while the engine is running. If you see smoke in there too, you have a large amount of exhaust blow-by getting past the rings. That is probably another route for your large amount of oil loss or consumption.