So today I pick up my car after the bottom end spun a bearing and I had it rebuilt. DogBox did the rebuilt. Another shop assembled to bottom end back to the head. I have new bearings, crank , pistons, ring , gaskets. So I had to drive the car to the body shop. I babbied the car the whole way , going through the gears , no boost , and not going higher than 3k rpms. The car smells like its burning oil , when i was sitting at a light i saw smoke coming from the hood and the temp gauge went up , but then went down. So im totally lost , broke and confused as to why my engine is smoking.I'm going to be bringing the car back on saturday to the mechanics after i pick it up from the body shop. Any ideas guys, on why this is happening. (do rebuilt blocks smoke?) i'd greatly appreciate it.
Rebuilt block smoking !!
jhood99
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So today I pick up my car after the bottom end spun a bearing and I had it rebuilt. DogBox did the rebuilt. Another shop assembled to bottom end back to the head. I have new bearings, crank , pistons, ring , gaskets. So I had to drive the car to the body shop. I babbied the car the whole way , going through the gears , no boost , and not going higher than 3k rpms. The car smells like its burning oil , when i was sitting at a light i saw smoke coming from the hood and the temp gauge went up , but then went down. So im totally lost , broke and confused as to why my engine is smoking.I'm going to be bringing the car back on saturday to the mechanics after i pick it up from the body shop. Any ideas guys, on why this is happening. (do rebuilt blocks smoke?) i'd greatly appreciate it.
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It's probably your seals/guides. If the bearing took a nasty dump then those savings could have gone through the whole engine mess up everything. Check the head, if not the turbo. You can undo the nuts on off the exh man and run the car the few mins it takes to usually smoke, and see if there's smoke coming out or if it accumulates/goes down the valves/guides.
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Smoke coming from the hood would make me think that a fitting or hose clamp didn't get tightend all the way.. Maybe turbo oil line, it would then leak onto the exhaust mani. or could be as simple as cheap paint or oil burning off a fresh engine. Did you open the hood and lood to see where the smoke or steam is coming from?
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Most likely its just oils/lube used in assembly burning off off the block.
Unless you see a leak I would not worry.
If it was internal it would be coming out the exhaust pipe.
Unless you see a leak I would not worry.
If it was internal it would be coming out the exhaust pipe.
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