Sounds like your oil might be contaminated with gasoline. This can cause the condition you are describing. Have the oil changed and filter. See if the oil smells gassy. A chronically rich running car because of a failed thermostat or bad injector will contaminate the oil with gas. OR your valve seals/guides are worn allowing oil to leak into the combustion chambers while the car sits overnight. The correct way to fix this is a head refurbish. OR The other possibility (if the white smoke is steam) is that you have a cracked head/block and when it heats up enough, expands, then quits leaking coolant into the combustion chamber(s).
Most likely the first two, unlikely the last. -Chris Fletcher ----- Original Message ----- From: "Knight Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 11:57 PM Subject: CRX: Second Gen HF Smoking > Greetings all, > > I've got a question, and I'm hoping someone can help me out. Sometimes > when I start my CRX in the morning, I get white smoke out of the tail > pipe. It usually subsides within 20 seconds or so, but occasionally it > has gone on as long as a minute. My oil level is also dropping fairly > slowly. However I am not seeing any leaks inside the engine > compartment and on the ground underneath where I park. > > Obviously I have a leak in the engine somewhere. I was wondering if > anyone else had run into a situation like this and could possibly give > suggestions on where to look. > > Thanks. > -KW >
