Could it be possible that my headgasket is blown from installing a breather kit? My car was running fine before putting in the kit.

The car ran fine after the install for about 20 mins, then I get mad white smoke coming out of the exhaust, it will come out randomly when I accelerate. I'm not talking about a lilttle puff here and there; I'm talking about a continous flow of thick white smoke. I then drove back home and came to find the muffler was somewhat leaking a black oily smudge...i'm also getting that nasty black loot on the tip of my bumper.

Before the install, my car's not overheating- just very low on oil. The catch can was catching lot of oil....that thing seem to fill up fast! At first, I didn't install it higher than the "T" so maybe oil wasn't draining back to the block. I check for leaks on the block fittings, hoses, and everything's cool. I changed my oil right after and there wasn't any sign of coolant/oil mixture, not milking white at all, just plain oil. I fix the height of the oil return hose from the catch can to the "T"...start it up, and it was still shooting out white smoke.

Can anybody tell me what's wrong. TIA


Modified by kinvid at 10:18 PM 7/20/2004

 

help

 

a leakdown test would probably yield you some good information...

 

i found out what's the problem..the catch can was getting so much oil..it overfill it pass through the pcv valve into the intake manifold!!!