Hey... After a recent oil change (I put more than usual in, in the past I underfill a little but I don't think I went over the 4.8 spec) my '97 legacy outback wagon smelled like burning oil anytime I stopped and got out of the car. I drove the car fairly roughly today (stupid of me) and for the first time smoke came up through the hood. It was "normal" colored smoke, I would say, but it still smelled like oil. I looked underneath, and toward the back of the engine something must have been dripping onto the "Y" part of my exhaust pipe because quite a bit of smoke was coming from there. I didn't look hard to see what exactly was doing the dripping, but I was hoping to at least hear "you're not going to have to spend an exorbitant sum on a head gasket...."
I think I'm taking to to a nearby shop tomorrow to at least get a diagnosis.
Any tips would be appreciated...
Thanks, Thomas