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Gotcha well I took off today I'll start it tomorrow and see if smoke clears after putting new plastic hose elbow on. Would any seafoam or sealant actually damage the engine if I were to use some on it just to see if anything's either clogged or small leak fix? Would it be a bad idea to try before taking apart motor? Just thinking future-wise
Rip, thanks for insight though fs, would seafoam be a bad idea? Maybe clean a big carbon gunk idk I'm hoping for the best lol its just weird how theirs so much gray smoke
Seafoam can't hurt, it might clean up some of the oil from the intake. Someone here testes water vs Seafoam and got similar carbon removal results, so it probably won't hurt but it's also not a magic bullet.
I would just drive it normally a while and if it cleans itself out - great. If it smokes forever that's more of a clue that the problem is inside the engine.
Gotcha, putting it back together today, also is the oil metering pumps on the intake? because theres 3 lines with plugins and then a 4th where a line connects from the intake to where (in the pic) I'm assuming could be where the 4th line is supposed to go? but it's cut and theres a lot of buildup most ive seen yet just oil wise all over the connector piece. Intake (circled) hose snipped? Not sure what connector it is
Alright and yeah lol really did look like a hose but it was just to cover the screw so it looked nicer ig, got the intake on and idk if somethings wrong with the connection but like you mentioned before I can feel oil around the ring where I feel like oil should'nt be where the filter screws into
Hopefully somebody could help me with this issue I haven't gotten to it yet and it's concerning that I haven't. I feel like I'm between an oil ring seal failure in one of the rotor's or what I'm hoping some type of like or gasket that's burnt or messed up.
The diagnosis is I just bought this car it's a really nice color and bodykit, an 05 Shinka, automatic, and the first thing when I started it up about 20 seconds after it started smoking real bad out of the hood, further visual inspection it (what seems to me) be mainly coming from the bottom-right post and gasket loop of the Plenum intake manifold,
No engine light's, no code's, hell it doesnt even over-heat, the kicker is it doesn't leak visually out the bottom anywhere, the real kicker is that the smoke is white, pure white smoked out 4-way intersections on my way home with it, the entire time it trailed smoke out under the intake and it smoked pretty bad out tailpipe too.
So pure white smoke leads me to believe it's not oil being burnt from the engine, smells like old oil and I already pulled out from the airbox to the intake, the throttle body was pretty dirty and in the groove lines of the big vaccum line connecting the throttle body and airbox had gunk oil sitting in all the grooves, will post pic's but it's almost like casper come's and ****'s my car's that I buy because man do they have the weirdest issues. Thank You everybody in advance!
If it was me, I'd get under it and go over the entire engine start to finish to make sure you at least have all the parts and find leaks in the process. Pull the spark plugs and see what they tell you. Read rx8help.com to get up to speed on typical problems. Kinda hard to diagnose otherwise.
Last edited by Blancheeronsz; Jun 9, 2024 at 11:53 AM.
