smoke coming out of valve cover breather?
 

hey i got a bit of a problem....ive got some smoke coming out of my valve cover breather all the time...even at idle....and the car runs like ---- til boost kicks in...it idles rough a bit....im thinking i blew a headgasket but im not sure....i dont see any oil mixing in my radiator....im gonna run a compression test tomarrow to eliminate that but it just bothers me cause im worried i blew out a headgasket or not....im running right off the o2 housing and i dont see any smoke coming out of the turbo...so it burns clean....i might take a look at my spark plugs also...but let me know what it meens when i have smoke coming out of my breather hole.

louie

Re:smoke coming out of valve cover breather?
 

is it alot of smoke or just a little? sometimes when i open my oil cap a little smoke comes out when it's hot but nothing to worry over.

Re:smoke coming out of valve cover breather?
 

its just shoots puffs of air out at idle...its not an ass load but its enough to bother me...my friend johnny tells me its the heat in the head coming out...i have my dizzy retard'ed 4 degrees from stock...and i heard that when u retard ur timing at the dizzy it makes things hotter...so i dont know...let me know what u all think

louie

Re:smoke coming out of valve cover breather?
 

it is normal to have a little air puff out...

mine does smokes a little only when you open up the oil cap, and it also puff out a little more than normal amount of air :-X :-X :-X

it runs fine tho.

Re:smoke coming out of valve cover breather?
 

mine puffs out a good amount'

stock d15 w/ 170k... heh.

Re:smoke coming out of valve cover breather?
 

ring lands guys ring lands....i think you blew em...sure sounds like it...car idles like crap, probably sounds like a subaru. that sucks. ring lands have owned me too :-X

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I agree. I also think mine just ---- the bed. :-\

Re:smoke coming out of valve cover breather?
 

well....damnit....im gonna run a compression test and see what happens....but the only reason it idles rough is cause my timing issue...so im gonna set my timing back to stock and test it....if it comes out ok then its prolly the dizzy from being retarded 5 degrees and creating extra heat...so we will see...more than likely your right..UGH...looks like i gotta save to build my extra motor up now...i was hoping to avoid doing this so soon.

louie

Re:smoke coming out of valve cover breather?
 

Update on mine I checked my compression and its 185+ across the board.

Re:smoke coming out of valve cover breather?
 

blow by. = rings

do a compression test.

Re:smoke coming out of valve cover breather?
 

179 psi all across the board on mine...still green man...and to think...this motor is 14 years old...gotta love previous owners who dont blow ---- up for ya.

i found out what my problem was....my dumb ass had the PCV valve hooked up to the intake manifold....so i unhooked the hose and capped off the intake manifold...now its beautiful...no more smokey smoke and no more oil spewing all over my intake manifold and charge pipes...what it was doing was shoving all the boost pressure into my crank case via = PCV valve hose and it was shoving oil out of the valve cover breather hole and it was heating up the oil quikly causing it to smoke at idle....so problem solved...im making a homemade catch can setup out of a small folgers can and some hose with a filter... ;D

love that ghetto style.

louie