3yearproject

My wife was following me home the other day and she said when i start to go (give it gas) there si a cloud of smoke that come from my muffler. I know that i have a oil leak externally but this leading me towards a internal leak. maybe the head gasket. I been looking around online( well just ebay) and i can get a head gasket from about 45 bucks and a seal kit for about 98 bucks. I am trying to see if this will fix my problem. I have did a search and i see that the preludes do smoke some but I dont think they change smoke( smoke a lot)

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92 prelude with 180,000 plus miles and still running

3yearproject

Also i was planning to change out the engine for another h23a1 with less miles on it so i dont know if it is worh it. There is nothing wrong wwith the engine i have now other than the smoking thing. I have not did a compression test yet. If i get the head gasket set which includes all internal seals, should i just keep the engine?

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92 prelude with 180,000 plus miles and still running

TruNinja619

I would do a compression test before chaning your headgasket... it could eliminate that possibility...

blue smoke = oil

white smoke = water

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Dios

black smoke??

TruNinja619

Rich mixture... (more fuel than air on Air/Fuel Ratio)

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Lucke

actually white smoke would be coolant... since water won't create smoke.

3yearproject

i was talking to my friend at work today and they are thinking it could be the vavle lashes( i think that what its call) also because it only smoke after i have been driving around for about two or three minutes and does not smoke an start up

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Dios

when i bag the **** outa my car black smoke comes out

Lucke

thats normal, most likely thats just carbon residue thats burning off and showing out of the exhaust.