Oil leak white smoke

The most noticeable symptom of internal coolant leakage is when the white smoke is billowing out of the exhaust pipe and leaves a sweet odor in the air. If this happens, you will notice white smoke from the engine bay. How to fix white smoke coming from the engine. Leaking coolant is a leading cause for white smoke coming from the engine.

The white smoke and overheating is usually a sign of a blown cylinder head gasket. When the water is burnt with the fuel this is what causes the white smoke. The hose leaking is the radiator hose leaking coolant, which is what caused the engine to overheat. This can often times lead to catastrophic engine damage.

Your oil problem it sounds like you have a major leak in the oil pan gasket or the valve cover gaskets. Regardless, curb it and have a leak down test performed. Internal oil leak is not visible from the outside of the turbocharger sub-assembly.

However, next day the main issue I discovered was spitting oil from muffler and extreme white smoke (no oil change was recently done, thus no chance of additional oil in oil case). I ran the engine for minutes but smoke was still there and shutoff and I could start any more and the deck was full of oil. OK, I have fifty years of experience as a gear head working on cars and building high performance engines. In the past, it was possible to quickly diagnose engine problems by looking at the color of the exhaust.

Thanks for response all! Head gasket was leaking little oil on left side and does show sign of wear. Will check the bottom bolts when replacing gaskets and will look at breather as well. When I open the hoo I see the white smoke coming from the area which I highlighted with red in the first picture.

The second picture is a zoom-in of the first one. You will probably notice there what I suspect as oil being collected in that engine area and when the engine heats up, the oil is burnt. If oil were to ever leak out of your piston rings or valve seals, then it would flow into the internal combustion chamber along with the fuel. Once the fuel and oil get mixed together, it will cause white smoke and maybe even blue smoke to come out of the tailpipe.

Unfortunately there is too much opinion on this, and lack of fact. If an oil leak occurs from turbine side seal, a large amount of white smoke will be emitted from exhaust pipe. First, white smoke is moisture. Either normal from drawing moist air into the engine and burning it out. And even if the oil leaks , it will now be able to endure high-temperature environments (due to the increased elasticity).

This additive also improves engine’s performance, but only slightly. There was white smoke coming from underneath the engine, so I shut the car off. My uncle said it is most likely an oil leak , and looking underneath the car there is a little black fluid underneath the car. Quick check of your compressor inlet for oil (cool engine, of course) would help answer this. Might want to check for play, too.

Also, my turbo died under full load and I got a huge amount of smoke out of my exhaust. It was not a head gasket or cracked head. Based on your description, it doesn’t seem like you have any of the tell-tale signs, so it would be difficult to say that it’s head gasket related. If the white smoke still keeps coming out after the engine is nice and warm something may be wrong.

There may be problems with the engine block, and coolant may be leaking in to the engine because of a leak in the head gasket. Blue is a color of trouble with the oil. Whether it is light or dark, that indigo shade suggests that oil is burning. In any event, now’s a good time to change the oil and oil filter.

I’ve had that happen twice, one time on a Corolla due to a radiator that sprang a leak , and the other time on a Ford truck, a coolant hose burst.