Suspect blown head gasket (or blown turbo seals?), video of the problem from before it starts, to it being bad Options

[delusionz]

How ironic, after commenting on 2 overheating threads, my engine also overheated. - when this happened, i was missing 3 litres of coolant from the radiator it was completely empty even though i top it up once a week

I flushed the heater core, flushed the system, installed TRD thermostat, poured in 4 bottles of Toyota LL coolant, idled up to temperature, installed TRD radiator cap, rolled down the driveway facing up, ran the engine at 2000 rpm with the radiator cap off and funnel inserted, topped up as necessary and refit TRD cap when bubbles stopped coming up.

Procedure took several hours to complete, afterward I took the car for a hard blast, everything seemed okay and the heater was now giving beautiful heat, however when I got the car back in the driveway I had white smoke start billowing out of the tail pipe.

I re-checked the coolant and its still good, and the oil isnt sludgy so I can rule out the head gasket, I fear coolant is getting into the engine and burning out the exhaust but how??? Where do I go from here?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61f2oO_rrfc

This post has been edited by delusionz: Apr 7, 2011 - 7:02 AM

[delusionz]

The smoke out the tailpipe looks like it has a blue tint to me... But where is that smoke coming from when you go under the car? It looks more white.
Does the smoke smell sweet, like coolant? That's a sure sign of a bad hg.
The way it takes a while to start makes me think turbo, but they sell test strips @ autozone or whatever parts places you guys have on your side of the pond to check for hydrocarbons in the coolant.

Long story short, a rear end crash pushed my exhaust system in and squashed the piping so the center muffler hangs low and scrapes everything i drive over, its got a hole in it now. What you see coming out from under the car should normally come out the tail pipe.

It's white on idle , and black/blue on rev..... it smells of all sorts of things... Fuel, Oil and just smoke. I'm not sure if I smell coolant though, I don't know what it smells like when it burns.

i have white smoke all the time, when i first turn on the car but it may be due to water mist coming out of the exhaust. but i don't have overheating or mixture of coolant and oil. idk what mine is either it stumps me.

thats normal for any car, whats not normal is when the smoke doesnt go away, or gets worse like to the effect of someone doing a 10 minute burnout in a V8 right next to you..