Jake Miller
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Automatic, 3.4L, 125k miles, no leaks. Strange place to see smoke, could this be the head gasket? Anyone have any luck with the recall? Anything else this could be? Thanks in advance, everyone!
2002 Taco - Engine Smoke - Recall? Head Gasket?
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Crawdad
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Seems like it's just oil burnoff. I see some oily residue around the valve cover bolts, my best guess is valve cover gasket.
Does it have an obvious miss, like a dead cylinder?
Hard to tell in the video, do you hear a compression leak under the hood?
Would be very obvious...
Radiator boiling over? Air bubbles in the radiator?
Does it have an obvious miss, like a dead cylinder?
Hard to tell in the video, do you hear a compression leak under the hood?
Would be very obvious...
Radiator boiling over? Air bubbles in the radiator?
Jake Miller
New Member
Don’t think it’s a dead cylinder or a compression leak, and I’m not seeing anything off with the radiator...
Crawdad
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Me thinks your head gasket should be fine then. Maybe time to degrease under the hood.
OR17TRD
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leaking from your dipstick with a base O-ring sounds like a personal problem
texasred
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At least it doesn’t have anything to do with a straight razor! [emoji50]leaking from your dipstick with a base O-ring sounds like a personal problem
B-Man
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Hahahahahaha!!
OR17TRD
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True. No stropping for you.