Blowing smoke and leaking oil.

[turbohead2332]

So I've been driving one of my dad's vehicles while my car is down. I've been driving a mid 90s Lumina. It does NOT like to run when it's cold. I cranked it up this morning, let it warm up, and left. Well it shut off right down the street twice in the middle of traffic. I floored the gas, cranked it up and we were good after the second time. Well I got to where I needed to be and realized, "Oh 5h!t. I'm smoking!" So after breaking the hood latch lever, I get out the car and go poking around under the hood. I find oil on the hot engine block and that's where the smoke was coming from. I figured maybe somehow the oil got there, no big deal. I think I'm wrong. I went to grab some food from a drive thru and realized (this is about 45 minutes after the initial smoking...I had been at the bank.) I'm still smoking! So I get my food and park the car in a space. I pop the hood and look around. I still see oil, but I don't see any more than what I'd seen before. I look down and there's a small puddle of oil on the ground. Wtf did I do? It was smoking the most that I could see right by where the head meets the block by the exhaust manifold. Did I blow a head gasket?

[bigbrian442]

Re: Blowing smoke and leaking oil.

take a picture

Brian

[turbohead2332]

Re: Blowing smoke and leaking oil.

anyone?

[Blue02]

Re: Blowing smoke and leaking oil.

Really hard to say from the description, good pics would probably help.

[cam98aro]

Re: Blowing smoke and leaking oil.

valve cover gaskets

[turbohead2332]

Re: Blowing smoke and leaking oil.

I accidentally may have over revved it when I fired it back up. It revved kinda high, but it doesn't have a tach and I can't tell by listening. That help any more?

[tkoforpresident]

Re: Blowing smoke and leaking oil.

.... picture.....

[kristen]

Re: Blowing smoke and leaking oil.

check out the oil. if it's waterie and clumpie then you busted your head gasket and now have coolant leaking into your oil.

doubt that it's the valve covers cause they are next to you upper intake.

is it where your lower intake meet the block that your talking about?

[bigbrian442]

Re: Blowing smoke and leaking oil.

doubt that it's the valve covers cause they are next to you upper intake.

This isn't a F body it's a Lumna. If it's a 3.1 or 3.4 the upper intake is very close to the valve covers.
These motors also have an oil pump drive that is under the throttle body in the block, looks like a distrubor shaft and hold down. The O ring on the shaft dries out and leaks oil.

Brian