why is this happening and how can i fix it???????????????????

[mustangmike98gt]

i got my car way back in september, and its been running perfectly fine until this month....now it burns oil and the coolant overflows all the time, think i go through 2 bottles of oil a week. some times ill just be driving normally around town and when i give it a little gas i look behind me and i see clouds of smoke everywhere.....wtf somebody help me.

 

[MustangChris]

head gasket? oil entering your coolant system? coolant/oil entering the combustion chamber?

 

[four.six]

Yep sounds like a head gasket.

 

[MustangChris]

Yep sounds like a head gasket.

sweet lol. i was right for a change.

 

[justinschmidt1]

i got my car way back in september, and its been running perfectly fine until this month....now it burns oil and the coolant overflows all the time, think i go through 2 bottles of oil a week. some times ill just be driving normally around town and when i give it a little gas i look behind me and i see clouds of smoke everywhere.....wtf somebody help me.

blown head gasket

 

[JonBeast]

Perfect time to upgrade to some PI heads

 

[justinschmidt1]

Perfect time to upgrade to some PI heads

or an alum block 03/04 explorer motor..

front end weight reduction is FTW

 

[glittle75]

am i just having a brain fart, or would it not be the rings? if it was a head gasket, it would smoke all the time right?

if it does it only when he gives it gas then the rings are going and he is getting 'blow by'

would hate to see you tear it apart and put it back with new head gaskets and still smoke.

try this, do a compression test, record the numbers. then do it again, but drop half a CAP of oil in the combustion chamber before every reading on each cylinder. if the numbers go up from the first test, you got bad rings. if they stay the same or hover around the same, bad head gasket.

 

[MustangChris]

hm. learn something new every day.

 

[GDTrumbo]

I find nothing wrong with that technique. But remember, he's overflowing coolant all the time too.

GT

 

[Javi]

Rebuild time?

 

[glittle75]

over flowing the coolant could be the t-stat not opening. another thing to check. you can either buy a new one, or take yours out and throw it in some boiling water on the stove, if it opens in the water its good and you got bigger problems.

 

[RareBreed]

AHHHH, old school tech at it's best. sounds like some of the tips/tricks my dad used to use. I agree, TSTAT could be bad, but if he had a blown head gasket, he would not necessarily be overflowing coolant but possibly be burning it through the motor. Mike, have you checked the coolant and oil to make sure you don't have a coolant/oil milkshake?

 

[bottlefed97]

am i just having a brain fart, or would it not be the rings? if it was a head gasket, it would smoke all the time right?

if it does it only when he gives it gas then the rings are going and he is getting 'blow by'

would hate to see you tear it apart and put it back with new head gaskets and still smoke.

try this, do a compression test, record the numbers. then do it again, but drop half a CAP of oil in the combustion chamber before every reading on each cylinder. if the numbers go up from the first test, you got bad rings. if they stay the same or hover around the same, bad head gasket.

The exact same thing was happening to my car... And it was 100% due to the piston rings being burnt and worn out.

 

[justinschmidt1]

when my coolant was boiling out i had a blown HG


check the tstat but is sounds like something more to me....regardless it sounds like you need a rebuild

 

[mustangmike98gt]

i just replaced the thermostat and im finding that it only smokes when the motor is hot

 

[MustangChris]

check it out, make sure it works. if you re-install it, be sure to leap-frog the bolts. if you tighten one down, then the other, it will crack the housing.