hey guys, just got a question about my passat GLX...i had a lot of smoke coming from the engine and then coming from the exhaust as well...i looked under the hood as fast as i could..reved it up and i saw smoke coming out of the head...i was just wondering could this be a blown head gasket cuz if it is im gonna need to know the cost...and what the hell i gotta do in order to get everything done...thanks a lot
Matt
"96PassatGLX" wrote
What ever you do, do not let the car sit like that long if you take it out of service. A coolant leak into the cylinders can rust up the cylinder wall and require an engine rebuild. I put a car aside once that needed a gasket to work on later and a relatively short time later I took the head off to find all the cylinders severely and unrepairably rusted as once the oil drops from the cylinder walls from a bit of time it is *bare iron* that can rust fast. It was short time the thickness of the rust on the cylinder walls was unbelievable. Engine was discarded.
Harry
Make sure you did not overfill the oil!!
If its the headgasket your oil should appear to be milky as antifreeze and oil don't mix very well. Either drain some of it off and check the color. Also check your antifreeze for contamination. If its a blown head - you are talking major $$$ if its warped.
yeah i checked that before...my oil was high, but idk why because it has an oil leak, and it was really low before...but i drained the access oil out and the car ran fine after that but it was smoking like a bitch still...brought it to a shop already cuz im fed up with it... thanks a lot though
Matt
96PassatGLXhey thanks a lot for the advice and yes i am aware of the price that it will cost to get a head gasket replacement, but i already know how to do a head gasket replacement, because i have been taking college auto tech classes, and im a senior in high school so i know my stuff haha...but thanks a lot
Matt
96PassatGLXSometimes fuel injected (or non-FI) engines can have a problem with too much gas getting inside of the cylinders and getting into the oil. Oil thins out and then you will see smoke out of the exhaust as this gas-oil mixture gets burnt. Maybe the fuel pressure regulator ruptures and fuel gets sucked into the intake via the vacuum hose. Smell the oil and report back.
just a thought! later, dave (One out of many daves)
Sometimes my engine compartment smokes... because I carelessly spill oil on the exhaust manifold. :-P
yeah i dont do that...haha but idk its weird..
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