Recent content by jake595

quick up date on my car. Two weeks in the shop and two collapsed oil rings. They replaced all rings sent the head to a shop and replaced the rear motor mount, which he said took a good part of a day. Total cost $1475. Not to bad and a lot cheaper than finding a good used car. The check...

My car is doing the same thing. Just had the valve seals replaced but still smokes. Now I'm looking at selling the car or replacing the rings and what ever rabbit trail of problems they find once the engine is apart. How long would it take a mechanic to re-ring the engine?

yeah! I know Im low on oil when it stops smoking, I have come to the conclution that I need a new head or rebuild the old head. What is the process in replacing the valve guides. I still need to do a comp test on the cylinders. At this point Im weighing (sp) out my options as far as selling...

Spoke to soon, I had a little smoke come out after work today.

Thanks for the great advice and info, so far I changed out the PCV valve and no smoke on start up. WOW I love $10 repairs. I still plan on doing a compresion test just to find out how well the engine is doing. Thanks Rob I would have never even thought of the PCV valve.

so a compression test would rule out a valve problem? and how does the PVC valve cause the car to burn oil and smoke? thanks for the info.

Hello, My name is Jake I own a 2001 Blue MP3. Im new to this whole forum thing so go easy on me. My car has 150000 miles on it and it started smoking on start up and burning oil. I did a search and saw one post that said it was the valve guides. 1st Question, how could you test to narrow it...