Slight rattle in eng.,massive oil leak in bottom half,spraying oil ,and after 10-15 min,lots of white smoke.Please help! {and how much to fix?}
Jul 19, 2009 at 2:17 PM
1984 BMW 318 engine noise,oil leak,white smoke.
1984 BMW 318
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Hi there,
this is sounding like a few problems, spraying oil sounds like a high pressure leak from the filter or may be the oil pressure sender, if oil pressure and quantity fall to low this may be part of the cause of the engine noise, the white smoke cane be an indication that you have a head gasket problem, are you overheating or loosing coolant as well? get the engine oil leak seen to first as if you run out of oil you will destroy the engine, have it washed down and check the filter and oil pressure sender first.
Mark (mhpautos)
this is sounding like a few problems, spraying oil sounds like a high pressure leak from the filter or may be the oil pressure sender, if oil pressure and quantity fall to low this may be part of the cause of the engine noise, the white smoke cane be an indication that you have a head gasket problem, are you overheating or loosing coolant as well? get the engine oil leak seen to first as if you run out of oil you will destroy the engine, have it washed down and check the filter and oil pressure sender first.
Mark (mhpautos)
Jul 19, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Thanks MHP.It was overheating,but not losing coolant.
Jul 19, 2009 at 4:53 PM
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