So I was driving yesterday morning with the engine opened up. Suddenly I had liquid sprayed on my windshield (passenger side) and drove in limp mode to work (I was about 1/4 of a mile away).

Looks like my oil dipstick blew out and sprayed oil everywhere, which also knocked my serp belt off. Had it towed, and asked the mechanic to clean the oil and we will need a new belt. My belt didn't snap, but it was covered in oil. (the car has a pulley saver kit, so i'm not sure which belt is actually on it)

The mechanics started messing with is and said that its blowing white smoke out the exhaust. They won't look into the engine and said to take it to a specialist. they first thought I could of blown a head gasket, but did a compression test and it came back ok. There next theory was that is blew a valve stem seal.

If I understand correctly, the engine will misfire without the serp belt. Is there anything that would make the exhaust smoke while the serp belt it off naturally? They mentioned that it could of been too much build up of crank case pressure that blew the dipstick, but I also read the dipstick seal can go, and I doubt its ever been replaced.

 

the PSK uses a longer belt, email me with your setup and I can tell you which belt to pick up locally. or we can ship it. I just don't know what your real name is to look your order up though at this point.


how far out did the dipstick push out?


how much boost are you running?


compression came back good? good news, but then why is your oil pan being pressurized?


Is the car back home?


how does the oil look on the dipstick?


how does the coolant look in the overflow reservoir?

 

With an SRT6, the first thing I would think of with white smoke out the exhaust is a failed intercooler. As Rob previously asked; Is it low on coolant? I know it may be unrelated to blowing a dipstick, but just saying.

 

The oil is about a 1/4 of a quart low currently, its still at the shop. I'm not sure how the oil looks but they didn't mention anything about it. When I looked the dipstick was a few inches out, but there is no telling how far it came out and fell back in.

I'm not sure on the boost, 65mm pulley with ecu tune

Thank you for your help!

 

I won't be sure until friday, if they are open, The white smoke me mentioned makes me think that it could be coolant.

I would love for the smoke to be just a byproduct of the belt slipping off at high rpm's and having the water pump shut down, or some byproduct of the water pump not being used when the engine is running, hopefully without breaking something.

Thanks!

 

If the car has a coolant separation kit then the level in the coolant overflow would not be affected if the intercooler leaked. It would naturally lead to overheating and a lack of power, which could be the limp mode discription.
If the kit is fitted opening it up would cause a drop in the coolant level and maybe an airlock.
Edit
I see from your first post that you do have the isolation kit.

 

you need a gates belt k081153, call NAPA, if they don't have it I can ship one out Monday.


yes if you have our ICiso kit, turn both the valve ***** parallel with the lines to open them up and get the cooling system back to OEM for the troubleshooting


let us know once you have more info and we are happy to help

 

will do, thank you very much sir!

 

Also buy a cheap oil filter and use one of the supplied orings for the dipstick. New oring should keep it from popping up.

 

Thanks I'm going to try it, until I have one I may just tape the dipstick shut

 

My posting from long ago:

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...at-waldig.html

Enjoy, Woody

 

Thank you sir!

 

Thanks Woody! , i just checked mine after reading this , the o ring was not very tight , it was brittle and broke in half taking it off .
I put on a new O ring from the filter kit and the dipstick fits nice and tight now.

:-)

 

Belt went on today, engine runs very oddly. check engine light stays on. Exhaust still blows a lot of smoke (oil)

There guess is a blown piston, so it will be going to another mechanic who will pursue it further

 

Do a compression check.

 

Thats probably the first thing the next mechanic is going to check.

Question: would a bad spark plug be enough to cause my issues, I can see the missfire but would it cause the exhaust to be super smokey?

 

We have gone white smoke to oily smoke, good compression to another compression check. The car runs oddly? What does that mean?
We have the CE light on but no codes read. Quit the guessing and read the bloody codes. Could be a broken piston oil ring that broke prior to the oil leak.
What the car was like before this mishap is unknown as is the mileage on the car.

 

Short answer, NO.

 

I may have misunderstood him initially. I thought it was a compression check but it was something else. He quoted me white smoke but it's a blueish white so I think burning oil is likely. I haven't read the cel myself - I don't think they did, but I'd guess misfire codes. Engine shakes a lot while running, also the exhaust shakes a lot. Car was tiptop before this besides a very recent battery change, and it's at 60k miles.

I should get a chance to read the codes tomorrow.

Thank you!

 

Maybe a valve seal causing oil leak???? A miss could guess fouled plug makes the shaking occure. WW