I go to start my car Monday and it cranks 1 time the cuts out like the starter stopped. Then I cranked it again and it cranked about 3 times before cutting out again. Third time I tried it started fine but was burning coolant. White smoke and everything. Smoke stopped when the car warmed up. my car had no symptoms or issues before this time.
It was dark so I said I'd deal with it Tuesday. Went out and it started fine. No smoke no coolant smell no nothing. So I drove it to work with no issues and after work gave it a compression test and filled and bled the coolant. Still no issues. Compression was 170-180-181-180. Coolant reservoir did bubble when holding the throttle.
So today to go to crank it up and it cranks 2 times and on the third crank it sounded like it missed or just had a hard crank and cranked 2 more times and did the hard crank again the started fine. Had smoke again this morning until it warmed up and the smoke went away.
I have no mixture of coolant and oil either when I checked yesterday. I would think I have a gap or something somewhere that seals up when the engine heats up but that doesn't explain yesterday's cold start when It started just fine. I got a head gasket tester and gonna check to see if its exhaust coming into the coolant system today after work. Also car doesn't overheat.
Anyone have any ideas. Thanks in advance!
PS. Also replaced the head gasket and various other things about a year and a half ago. But DIDNT resurface the head. Dumb yea I know but nothing I can do about it now.
It was dark so I said I'd deal with it Tuesday. Went out and it started fine. No smoke no coolant smell no nothing. So I drove it to work with no issues and after work gave it a compression test and filled and bled the coolant. Still no issues. Compression was 170-180-181-180. Coolant reservoir did bubble when holding the throttle.
So today to go to crank it up and it cranks 2 times and on the third crank it sounded like it missed or just had a hard crank and cranked 2 more times and did the hard crank again the started fine. Had smoke again this morning until it warmed up and the smoke went away.
I have no mixture of coolant and oil either when I checked yesterday. I would think I have a gap or something somewhere that seals up when the engine heats up but that doesn't explain yesterday's cold start when It started just fine. I got a head gasket tester and gonna check to see if its exhaust coming into the coolant system today after work. Also car doesn't overheat.
Anyone have any ideas. Thanks in advance!
PS. Also replaced the head gasket and various other things about a year and a half ago. But DIDNT resurface the head. Dumb yea I know but nothing I can do about it now.
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