1997 Honda Civic A lot of white smoke at all times

1997 HONDA CIVIC
60,000 MILES • 4 CYL • FWD • MANUAL
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TDDRISKILL
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At all times that the car is on this car smokes white.. and a lot of smoke at that. I have just replaced all of the gaskets for the head less than 12 hours ago. I took the head to a shop because I thought that it could possibly be warped. That is not so. I have also replaced a valve on the intake manifold side in port 3 because it was not seating right and would leak oil into the chamber.. I thought this would be the original culprit. This is not so after putting it all back together. If there was an oil leak like this into the head this would normally cause the oil to flow through through the exhaust side and down the exhaust manifold? And how long would I have to run the car to get all the oil burn out? Im really at a loss of ideas at this point. I guess i could just replace all the valves.
Mar 20, 2009 at 11:04 PM
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1997 Honda Civic A lot of white smoke at all times

White smoke indicates coolant is being burn in the combustion chamber

To find out what it is-Get it block and pressure tested to rule out the headgasket, cracked head or block, intake gasket
Mar 21, 2009 at 3:39 AM