DonkRado
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA
'90 Renix 4.0. 36K on reman.
Ok, so I picked the car up and drove it home 300 miles. The person riding behind me claimed I had puffs of black smoke when getting down on the gas, but only black. It also dropped several quarts of oil so I have recently gone through and replaced the following:
Front & Rear Main Seals
Valve Cover Gasket
Oil Pump
Oil Pan Gasket
CCV Hoses
New plugs, wires, dizzy cap, rotor button
I had a little bit of an issue getting it to start after I initially reindexed the distributor. So, I cranked on it for several days with timing off a few teeth before I finally reset it at TDC and it fired right up. I always notice a small splattering of black 'soot' on the ground behind the tailpipe after it has first started, and it just continuously pours steady white smoke out of the tailpipe. I haven't even put a full mile on it since I put it all back together, so I haven't ruled out residual condensation in the exhaust system, but the smoke definitely worsens when blipping the throttle from idle. At no point during the drive home did it overheat, nor has it had any high temperatures since I have put it back together.
One thing I noticed when I had the valve cover off and was removing the old CCV hoses was that the old grommets were really hardened and almost crystalized... totally full of gunk. For some reason, I didn't dissassemble the actual CCV parts inside of the valve cover, and now I'm wondering if they are stopped up. There was definitely oil in the old air filter, so there was some blowby present. Could the CCV filters being clogged cause white smoke at the tailpipe? Any other ideas? I'm not quite ready to accept a blown HG due to the consistently low temps, and I don't want to pull the head off if it could potentially be something easier.
The car has officially emptied my bank account, and I'm now nickel and diming my credit cards. I know that someone will suggest a leakdown, but does anyone have an idea what that would roughly cost me?
Lastly, I've seen mention of reading the spark plugs for symptoms, but I wasn't able to find any specific symptom of coolant or water in the chamber. Anyone know? New plugs, so it should be fairly easy to read. Thank you.
Ok, so I picked the car up and drove it home 300 miles. The person riding behind me claimed I had puffs of black smoke when getting down on the gas, but only black. It also dropped several quarts of oil so I have recently gone through and replaced the following:
Front & Rear Main Seals
Valve Cover Gasket
Oil Pump
Oil Pan Gasket
CCV Hoses
New plugs, wires, dizzy cap, rotor button
I had a little bit of an issue getting it to start after I initially reindexed the distributor. So, I cranked on it for several days with timing off a few teeth before I finally reset it at TDC and it fired right up. I always notice a small splattering of black 'soot' on the ground behind the tailpipe after it has first started, and it just continuously pours steady white smoke out of the tailpipe. I haven't even put a full mile on it since I put it all back together, so I haven't ruled out residual condensation in the exhaust system, but the smoke definitely worsens when blipping the throttle from idle. At no point during the drive home did it overheat, nor has it had any high temperatures since I have put it back together.
One thing I noticed when I had the valve cover off and was removing the old CCV hoses was that the old grommets were really hardened and almost crystalized... totally full of gunk. For some reason, I didn't dissassemble the actual CCV parts inside of the valve cover, and now I'm wondering if they are stopped up. There was definitely oil in the old air filter, so there was some blowby present. Could the CCV filters being clogged cause white smoke at the tailpipe? Any other ideas? I'm not quite ready to accept a blown HG due to the consistently low temps, and I don't want to pull the head off if it could potentially be something easier.
The car has officially emptied my bank account, and I'm now nickel and diming my credit cards. I know that someone will suggest a leakdown, but does anyone have an idea what that would roughly cost me?
Lastly, I've seen mention of reading the spark plugs for symptoms, but I wasn't able to find any specific symptom of coolant or water in the chamber. Anyone know? New plugs, so it should be fairly easy to read. Thank you.