well head gaskets really fail for about 2 different reasons with a turbo...both involve heat

if your gasket blew you probably ran the coolant low

or

you lifted the head (unlikely)

 

What else could we look at? Any suggestions. Its white smoke, mainly when i down shift the wife says. And it stinks not like coolent.

 

well lets narrow things down a bit

do a compression test to check for a head gasket leak

a part of me wants to (regretfully) tell you that your seals on the turbo are going out i bet the smoke has a VERY SLIGHT blue tint to it you just dont see it

 

I did do a rebuild on this bad boy. So that could be possable. Sometime she says its grey, but that could be due to its not being tuned correctly

 

The thing is im not driving the car much. I need an alignment before i driver here again. Also i need the stinky smoke smell gone. I have to get my tabs on tuesday, so maybe i will go and drive her around.

 

still have a cat?

 

Yeah, if the oil is leaking into the exhaust side of the turbo also the smoke is a lot more white than blue because it's not being run through the engine. It's unfortunate but I too fear that it's a turbo seal. I don't know how common it is to have a water leak inside of the turbo, but that's a possibility too.

You should be able to pull the turbo and see if it's all oily inside.

 

Hi flow cat.

 

anyone know what the max oil psi should be for a Garrett T-25 turbo?