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How can you tell if your motor is blown?

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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 09:24 PM
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I feel hopeless. My motor was smoking a bit and now wont even start. When i give it battery it does crank but nothing more.
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 09:34 PM
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what color smoke and how much?
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 09:38 PM
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Theres alot of different ways your motor could blow. What makes you think its blown?
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 09:52 PM
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Well, before the car would start and it would smoke only when i would give it gas.. From inside the car it looked like a white or greyish smoke.
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 09:53 PM
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Also.., I found that there was too much oil in the motor.
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 09:59 PM
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"white or gray smoke"

Did the car overheat at all?
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 10:01 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SovXietday &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">"white or gray smoke"

Did the car overheat at all?</TD></TR></TABLE>
wont it still start with a blown hg though?
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 10:05 PM
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the car never overheated. it would start right up but it would just smoke when i gave it gas. i decided not to try to drive it. when i tried to start it a few days later to move it., it wouldn't start at all because the battery had died. I found there was too much oil in it. so i drained the oil and made sure there was the right ammount. Then when we gave it battery it started for like half a second but then died., and has never started since.
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 10:07 PM
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my friend blew his srt4 motor., when he would start it and gas it there would be huge ammounts of white smoke but my car had no one near the ammount of smoke comming out of it.
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Old Jun 27, 2006 | 12:27 AM
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Do a compression test, that will tell if your motors toast or not.
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Old Jun 27, 2006 | 01:06 AM
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you have a blown head gasket and a bend head
I had the same problem, smoke coming out of my exhaust while accelerating for 2 days maybe and the 3rd day my car didn't start
Your engine doesn't start probably because your head is full of water.

Anyway try to open the radiator's cap and then start the car if you saw water splashing on ur front bumper or the engine bay then its time to change the gasket and polish your head.


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Old Jun 27, 2006 | 02:45 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sohc_freak &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you have a blown head gasket and a bend head
I had the same problem, smoke coming out of my exhaust while accelerating for 2 days maybe and the 3rd day my car didn't start
Your engine doesn't start probably because your head is full of water.

Anyway try to open the radiator's cap and then start the car if you saw water splashing on ur front bumper or the engine bay then its time to change the gasket and polish your head.


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what language you speaking? but he has the right idea. pull your plugs and see if the are really white, if it is then you have a blown head gasket. was your oil milky when you looked at it?
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Old Jun 27, 2006 | 04:30 AM
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the oil looked regular., it was still brand new oil.
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Old Jun 27, 2006 | 06:16 AM
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Running an engine with too much oil can mess things up pretty quick. How much extra are we talking? Do like the others said, pull the plugs and do a compression check. Make sure you pull the fuel pump relay so you're not dumping raw fuel in while you're doing it. If you've got good compression across all cylinders then put new plugs in it and see if it will start.
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