I've noticed over the past year that my car has been burning oil. I see some bluish smoke behind me sometimes, usually only on acceleration. I know I have an oil leak since the last time it was on a rack, we could see where it was dripping from (but not the source). I do have to put new oil in all the time when it starts idling rough.
But here's the thing... I was getting on the freeway today. I'm at about 55 on the onramp and I see a couple semi's coming so I give it quite a bit more gas to drop a gear (automatic transmission) and get a bunch more speed quickly. I see in my rearview mirror a huge cloud of bluish smoke. That can't be good. Any thoughts?
03 LS Sport with about 75k miles
I'm not much of a car guy so is there anything I can check myself?
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Check for a stuck PCV Valve, that can cause blue smoke., Also try and check your compression to see if your engine is worn, but that low of miles seems unlikely but i could be wrong.
LOL. What is a PCV Valve? =) And how the hell would I check my compression? I push my engine quite a bit, but not since it started doing that @!#$. I try to baby it now.
I remember about a year ago, I was driving past some friends on bikes in the city. I was going about 25, and I kind of floored it to go "VROOOOOOOM!" and it threw out a bunch of smoke then as well. But I don't do that very often if not at all anymore because I know it can't be good (due to the smoke) and I don't want to break anything. I used to do it quite a bit and the car would just shift on it's own, and speed right up. It's a quick car when you put it to the limit. But like I said, I don't want to F anything up at this point.
"There were some Luddites with some kind of PC-based, primitive [operating system], I think it's called Windows, who couldn't figure out how I got a TV on the plane." Trent Reznor referring to peoples reaction to his PowerBook G4 Titanium
My bad no PCV valve on ecotec, I know the 2.4 doesn't have one but I guess ecotec doesn't either. Compression test ca be done with a compression test guage, you can rent from O'reilly's just remove all spark plugs, screw in gauge, have a helper crank over engine ad watch the pressure ad record where each one is at. I'm sure there is a how to somewhere o the forums.
Uh... doesn't that require removing a bunch of engine "stuff"? =)
"There were some Luddites with some kind of PC-based, primitive [operating system], I think it's called Windows, who couldn't figure out how I got a TV on the plane." Trent Reznor referring to peoples reaction to his PowerBook G4 Titanium
just the spark plug cover and spark plugs, pretty simple to do.
Hmmmm.... I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the idea.
"There were some Luddites with some kind of PC-based, primitive [operating system], I think it's called Windows, who couldn't figure out how I got a TV on the plane." Trent Reznor referring to peoples reaction to his PowerBook G4 Titanium
