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Lots of exhaust smoke. Head gasket? (with video)

Old Nov 22, 2017 | 04:47 PM
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Question Lots of exhaust smoke. Head gasket? (with video)

Cranked with timing totally off for fairly long time. Once corrected lots of smoke out exhaust about ~30secs after starting and significantly more with throttle. Definite HG or is this a sign of more damage? Planning to do a block test but with this much smoke perhaps it's dead obvious to someone with more experience.

Video of exhaust under idle: https://imgur.com/a/t4bXR

Background: I've been burning oil and was doing my valve stem seals. I added some ATF into the cylinders per some threads saying it may help unstick rings and I knew I'd have the car off a few days. Once I put everything back together I proceeded to try and crank for admittedly far too long thinking it wasn't starting due to the ATF. Instead, I had my timing pretty much backwards. Car backfired a few times throughout the cranking, surprised the dipstick didn't go anywhere or anything else.

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Old Nov 22, 2017 | 07:56 PM
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raw oil in cylinders, which then coated all of the exhaust, would probably smoke for a while..
Old Nov 22, 2017 | 09:55 PM
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It'll take time to burn off all that ATF (think "Seafoam"). Drive it for a while before giving up hope and doing something drastic.
Old Nov 23, 2017 | 11:27 AM
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Does it have a non standard exhaust smell?
Old Nov 29, 2017 | 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ryansmoneypit
raw oil in cylinders, which then coated all of the exhaust, would probably smoke for a while..
Originally Posted by hornetball
It'll take time to burn off all that ATF (think "Seafoam"). Drive it for a while before giving up hope and doing something drastic.
Thanks for reading all the way through and calling that out! Didn't think it'd take long - I've accidentally drained my catch can the wrong way but even then it only took ~2 minutes to clear out. I let the car idle probably a total of 30 minutes at a minimum before the smoke finally subsided so that's a wrap with that. To be determined if my valve seals fix my oil issue but glad to have avoided any major issues with this one.


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