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[norwood e30]

Ok i fill my car up today i drive a block down the street the car cuts off try to start oil light comes on then i fill it back with oil to take it home now the car trails grey smoke. Now i pulled it in my garage i see that the oil filter housing seal went bad so that explains low oil level from before so what is the problem is it the piston rings cuz my car idle and run pretty good and know ping rumbling or knocking at all what should i do from here?

[Jon325i]

Norwood:

You are a grammatical error tour-de-force with that post. I took the liberty to clean things up so it makes more sense to the readers.

Ok, I filled my car up today and drive a block down the street when the car cuts off. I try starting it again and the oil light comes on. Then I fill it with oil to take it home. Now the car trails grey smoke so I pulled it into my garage to see that the oil filter housing seal went bad; that explains the low oil level from before. So what is the problem? Is it the piston rings because my car idles and runs pretty good with no ping, rumbling, or knocking at all. What should I do from here?

Put a little more effort in typing your posts so the others don't think of you as a complete blithering idiot.

[kenika65]

I understood you, ha. I am going to suggest changing the oil and put some oil additive in to help oil the valves and rings, I would even poor some oil in the cylinder just in case. Is there any oil in your intake boot?

[norwood e30]

lol thanks kenika 65 and jon i really wouldnt care what others think of me. Unless ur a sexy ass girl lol thanx for bein concern.

[Curtis325is]

Grey smoke = running rich (too much fuel). Blue smoke is burning oil. White smoke is coolant.

[nineohfour]

Ok i fill my car up today i drive a block down the street the car cuts off try to start oil light comes on then i fill it back with oil to take it home now the car trails grey smoke. Now i pulled it in my garage i see that the oil filter housing seal went bad so that explains low oil level from before so what is the problem is it the piston rings cuz my car idle and run pretty good and know ping rumbling or knocking at all what should i do from here?

wow, dude. this , is a comma. did you fill up the gas tank or did you fill your engine with oil...... like 8 quarts! ha , just kiddin. does the smoke smell like burn oil or unburnt gas?

[norwood e30]

mostly oil...

[CorvallisBMW]

it smells mostly like oil?

You're going to have to tell us a bit more (and use punctuation and grammar) before we can narrow it down

Your car was smoking, you discovered a leaky oil filter housing. Did you fix it? Does it still smoke after fixing it?

[norwood e30]

Ok my car engine stopped after filling it up with GAS. The oil light came on indicating that i had low oil. So i put oil into the engine the car start up after. Now the other day i was driving the car again i notice a lot white smoke was comming out the exhasut. first thing i thought my piston rings were done and valves as well. But i notice the motor was runnig strong as always No ping no shake or knocking in the motor. i checked the oil and was brown as hell and watery so that shows that there water or coolant in the motor that causes it to smoke when i ex-cel... other than that sitting it doesnt smokes at all.

[norwood e30]

Now im going to change the oil and see what happens. I that plan goes wrong im changing the motor.

[CorvallisBMW]

Sounds like a head gasket failure maybe? Don't replace the whole engine just because it smokes, head gaskets are fixable you know

[norwood e30]

lol yeah its seems like this motor is the only one i pay for with problems. I replace the valves gaskets head bolts timming and the water pump and this stupid shit happens. bmwsob changed it all for me like 4 months ago. And i changed the radiator 5 months ago.

[norwood e30]

bmwsob changed the head gasket bolts valves ect like 4 months ago. plus i did the water pump plus the radiator. I guess i can give it another chance lol.

[Hallen]

Yeah, it's a blown head gasket. Not good, but not fatal unless you drive it more and it overheats.
Sorry about that. These are old cars and you can never tell what the PO did to them before you bought them. He probably over heated it because he didn't replace the water pump or something, and there you go.

[norwood e30]

I changed the water pump and head gasket set. Not saying that it isnt the gasket but i changed most of the cooling parts along with the timming belt and tens.. but its clear that it is a internal leak tho.