1998 prelude smokes

[FiBTLforlife]

It can mean a cracked head to something simple as changing a head gasket.

im pretty sure its not a cracked head because my mechanic would of told me, most likely something could of happend to the gasket. but as for oil being all in the manafold and exhaust, do you think thats kina a bunch of BS or is that possible as well...i should take a vid of the smoke and post it

You think your mechanic would have told you. Sometimes they are not always truthful. The only way that the gasket could have really messed up is if old age or the previous owner got the car WAYYYY too hot and it messed it up. But if he got tooooo hot it could have cracked the head.

But try the head gasket first.

thanks allog for the fast reply, im gone take all this into consideration. ill prob post back within a few days with some updates on whats going on

[Rebel4055]

If he pulled the entire motor apart you would think all the gaskets were changed.

Contact your mechanic and ask.

[raolito1980]

Me and my bro changed out a motor on Kia and the motor we put into it smoke like a mofo. So we checked everything again, cause we thought it was radiator fuild in the engine, but found nothing. So we drove it a couple miles hoping it went away, but nope. Well we we decided to take it for a trip around half of Houston. Well smoke went away after about 50 miles of driving. I guess the problem was that motor had sat for a while, maybe a few months. Motor came out of a wrecked vehicle. So I'm sure it was that. But check your motor for a cloudy look. Maybe waterradiator fluid in your engine.

[cmamtower]

sounds like a blown headgasket, easy and cheap fix though

would the head gasket get replaced though if you take motor apart to install new rings?

yes, or atleast it should have been. on honda's, anytime the head is seperated from the block, the gasket should be replaced. i mean for honda's they're cheap as dirt

[FiBTLforlife]

i know that the gaskets where changed out because I would stop by and check on what as going on with car, he would show me the old parts and then they went into trash.

they worked on car, main thing they told me was that there was still oil all in the manafold and exhuast and i needed to let that burn off. ive only put 30 miles on car since then so im gone give it a week

[Rebel4055]

Take it on the highway and nail the shit out of it. We had one car that was smoking like that because it sat long and after we drove it like starsky and hutch the smoke stopped.

[FiBTLforlife]

Take it on the highway and nail the shit out of it. We had one car that was smoking like that because it sat long and after we drove it like starsky and hutch the smoke stopped.

lmao yeah, wont hurt to try i suppose. Ive been somewhat easy on it right now after the rings got changed out. I put about 60 miles on it now, usually drive it to 4k rms at highest. but i guess its about time where i can get on it

[FiBTLforlife]

i also found out there is an ignition recall on this car, i found out the hard way after it died on me twice last night coming home. I took my bulky keys off and it stopped for now. so i called honda they said yeah ur car was in the line of affected models, so im going to go to honda and have them look at it and fix for free

[cubs_fan0718]

Heres something i would try, go and get some Sea-Foam from Autozone take 1/3 of the bottle pour it in a cup. Find ur vaccum line that sucks into ur intake manifold (make sure it goes to all of them) suck up all the seafoam then immediatly shut ur car off. You might need two people for this cause the car might die before it all gets in there, best thing to do is have some one have their foot slightly on the gas pedal. then wait 10-15minutes then fire that thing up and rev it till all the heavy smoke dissapates (sp). See if that helps any dont know if it will but its still a good thing to do every once in a while.