Car will not drive white smoke from behind engine and exhust

as title says NAME THE PROBLEM

white smoke is rings or water in the oil, the supra was doing this last week.. check/change your oil, and change the antifreeze to, that should fix it. unless if its rings i doubt it is tho

burning oil

pull the dip stick and see if the oil looks milky. if so you have coolant mixing with the oil. upper intake gasket or head gasket is blown. mine did that and it was a hole in the plentium.

Head gasket.

travis if its the head gaskets good luck, my hands still hurt from pulling my engine apart and i work on cars every day of the week. but the 3800 heads are the biggest pita i have ever had to work on. if you need some help send me an IM and i will help you out. dont for get that the 3800 had the big LIM gasket problem. it took me about 2 hours start to finish to do it.but i know what i was doing it might take you and hour er so longer. if you need help give me a shout dude i can help you out

Travis, you should be able to find plenty of help in the Twin Cities area thru the MNClubGP forums. I know there are some members there that work on these engines for a living.

im going to change the LIM gaskets BUT would this cause the car not to drive?? i dont think so!

I really can't diagnose the tranny problem IF any! anyone have any suggestions for having a place diagnose a problem for cheap? and tell me EXACTLY whats wrong so i can fix it?

1998 Riv wrote:

Travis, you should be able to find plenty of help in the Twin Cities area thru the MNClubGP forums. I know there are some members there that work on these engines for a living.

yes you are correct you know DOHCZ24? chris? he and i have been workin on this quite a bit...... just letting the rivi guys kno my problem........ its not a head gasket because that would cause a pretty bad misfire

'96reese wrote:

pull the dip stick and see if the oil looks milky. if so you have coolant mixing with the oil. upper intake gasket or head gasket is blown. mine did that and it was a hole in the plentium.

did your car still drive? like go in reverse and stuff?

check trans fluid level?

yah it drove. it looked like i was burning rubber the 50 miles i drove it home. big ass white clouds of smoke

deekster_caddy wrote:

check trans fluid level?

Yessir....... This is the same problem i have had for the last month! just decided to make a more professional topic with a MUCH better description
UPDATE
I Flushed the Transmission myself about 1 month before all went to heck! unfortunately i didnt change the filter! do you think its at all possible my filter/pan is REALLY gummed up?

uh oh, time for a new motor....im guessing from experience, that your motor is crapped.

if im correct....wasnt you who was saying your not reading any boost, and u just swapped out ur 3" pulley

if so then yeah....your motor is done!!! Get a new one

97rivman wrote:

uh oh, time for a new motor....im guessing from experience, that your motor is crapped.

if im correct....wasnt you who was saying your not reading any boost, and u just swapped out ur 3" pulley

if so then yeah....your motor is done!!! Get a new one

haha nope that was Dreww
https://rivperformance.editboard.com/profile.forum?mode=viewprofile&u=106

didnt u just take off a 3" pulley?

97rivman wrote:

didnt u just take off a 3" pulley?

NO i have a 3.4 inch pulley but im not putting it on until i port my exhaust manifolds and get a downpipe

I highly doubt that my tranny was ever flushed before i did it at 144K miles, i never changed the filter or dropped the pan when doing that............. Do you think its worth a shot at droppin my pan and draining the fluid putting in a new filter and fluid then attempting to drive it to see progress and then go and get it flushed and then drop the pan and change the filter and put in new fluid??? or is it not worth the 70-80 bucks???

Check the fluid. If it's red, no need to change. It sounds like two different, unrelated problems. Transmission is dead, and as for the white smoke, how much are we talkin' about here?

[quote="AA"]Check the fluid. If it's red, no need to change. It sounds like two different, unrelated problems. Transmission is dead, and as for the white smoke, how much are we talkin' about here?[/quote]

i will take a video tommorow:]

Did you say you flushed the trans fluid but didn't change the filter? That could kill a trans... clogged filter = very bad

As far as the smoke, you can have a leaking head gasket without a misfire. Head gasket or LIM are the most likely places to have coolant leaking. Check your spark plugs, one of them should tell the tale.

deekster_caddy wrote:

Did you say you flushed the trans fluid but didn't change the filter? That could kill a trans... clogged filter = very bad

if the trans pump is THAT clogged! would it not let the tranny shift properly and keep valves stuck open causing it to go foward in PRND321?

If the FILTER is that clogged, no fluid is getting to the pump!

deekster_caddy wrote:

If the FILTER is that clogged, no fluid is getting to the pump!

i'm going to buy a filter tommorow. and some lim gaskets and check it out!

pull your plugs. Do a compression test. You don't want to do the LIM gasket only to discover that you need a head gasket (and thus have to do the LIM all over again).

Admittedly it is very common to need a LIM gasket, but you should do a compression test beforehand anyway, and plug inspection. That way you know which cylinder you are looking for and you know what leak to confirm when you get the LIM off. You should be able to locate the passage the coolant was using to get to the intake runner.

Rent a compression tester from Autozone or buy one from Sears, or wherever. They aren't that expensive.