HELP buckets of white smoke coming from the oil filler cap

[Messenjah]

capper is pissingoil everywhere so much so that the little well around the spark plugs is full of oil ... loads of oil over the zorst manifold making it smoke like a trooper and i think its getting down the plugs aswell coz its only running on 2/ 3 cylinders

[mk2 stu]

erm .................................... poop!

[baz105e]

possible headgasket or rings increased crank case pressure ??? is oil coming from the cap on the rocker cover?

[Stu.C]

Loose rocker cover bolts? Duff rocker gasket?

[Messenjah]

ok guys on closer inspection this morning

 

when i start it up theres ALOT and i mean ALOT of white smoke coming directly from the oil filler cap hole ...... wtf ?

 

 

ideas please

[ann_capri]

sounds like you got water in the system as the white i think you will find is caused by poss head gasket problum mate as the water is mixing in the oil causeing more like steam what coulou is your oil is it a milky colour if so you have a lot of water in it is it coffee colour than that point to head gasket you can check the water take the rad cap off and look for oil deposits sitting om the water mate you dont need to over heat to have a head gasket problum is it smocking any ware else is the rocer cover gettin hot that it burns it could be just the rubber pershied on the oil cap

 

once had a renult 21 est drove that around for 12 months with the head gasket gone mate

[Messenjah]

if i block the oil filler cap it blows the crankase breather oit and smokes from there instead

[ann_capri]

it sound if do its breathing mate not a lot you can do if thats the case is it a 1.6or 2.0 as tiz has a block if its any-help mate but its 1.6 the only other thing you can try is to check ware the oil flows through pipes and the engine to make sure you have no blocks to make sure its not built up pressure mate

[baz105e]

my money's on rings or head gasket. the only way to find out os to whip the head off, or take it to a garage and get them to do a head leak test on it. is there pressure in the radiator???

[Tom]

Rings mate or a cracked head - do a quick compression test or bin it and get another one

[Messenjah]

what will a compression test tell me ? will that tell me if its a cracked head or rings ?

 

 

i wanna find out what it is if its just the head ill whip this one off and put my old one back on if its the rings ill get a whole other engine

[Smudger105e]

If it shows low compression, put a bit of oil in the bores, if compression increases, its the rings/piston, if not it's the head/head gasket.

[Pipster007]

I know where there is a lovely head for a Pinto for sale, with no more than a 1000 miles on it, which Colin Ashton rebuilt

[Doc]

its fooked

[Jay_harrier]

My money on rings, compression test it as is then squirt oil in the bores and test it again, if there's a big difference then its rings/worn bores.

 

But could be head gasket or cracked head as the others have said, whichever way you look at it the head is coming off

[steve mk2]

i had the same simptoms when i melted a piston

 

white smoke everywer even inside the car when u pull away

 

sounds like 2 or 3 cylinders

 

runs crap and looses lots of oil

[peterbilt]

You got smoke mate mite aswell take head off get it done and see how it goes if you got the money should do the rings and all at least its done then

[Rick]

i thought you had another pinto to stick in?