Blue smoke from the exhaust.

[shanelach]

When I begin accelerating in first at low rpm's my car smokes. I'm hoping its not rings or valve stem seals. Can anyone troubleshoot my problem?

[liquid_cool]

you have got issues..but first..we need more info to help us help you..how many miles on the motor..any over heating issues..ect..list every event that may have happend..and give as much detail as possible.

[shanelach]

160k on a ka24de. No over heating issues as of lately. I did a head gasket about 6k ago. It was overheating back then but not any more. It just started smoking yesterday, unless I didn't notice it. This is bad. I'm not in the mood to work an engine. Gotta do what ya gotta do I guess.


Modified by shanelach at 2:55 PM 6/29/2009

[4cefed]

Blue smoke is oil, I'm assuming you knew that. If it smokes all the time it might be rings or bad head gasket. Try a compression check.

If it smokes only a bit after you first start it after it has been siting a while, that is usually bad stem seals/guides.

[DrJuice164]

To add, if you had overheating issues prior, this could have warped the head thus not sealing perfectly. If it is a bad HG, there will most likely be oil in the coolant and vice versa.

For a quick test, you can do a compression test, if you find a low cylinder, poor a cap full off oil in, it the pressure increase a lot, you have bad rings; otherwise good chance it's valve stem seals.

[shanelach]

I'm really leaning towards bad valve stem seals. Theres no signs of a head gasket ie milkyness or mixing and googling bad valve stem seals led me to the exact symptoms I'm having. The head was checked also. Woot. I believe its time to dig into the head. Thanks guys.