Last Sunday night my Celica hat it first break down. I noticed it was knocking really hard about 1.5 miles from my house. It was not overheating and I had no check engine lights on so I limped it home as easy as I could. Pulling up my driveway (all 50ft) it blew at least a 75-foot high white cloud out the tail and had white smoke pouring out of the hood and died. After I got done cussing and throwing crap I called a shop up the street and a guy that has some trust in my area and a lot of people recommended came over and said I had no compression and was 99% sure I blew a head gasket probably between the 2 and 3 cylinders by the smoke. I towed it to his place and bought a headset, oil change, coolant, plugs and wires. He brought it back to me today but I could not test-drive it because my wife was at work and I had my daughter. So I just went out for a ride and it smoked like a train out the tail and anytime I stopped I could barely see for the smoke/steam coming out from under the hood. Note: that I did not have my under plastics on the car and the roads where damp but it didn’t smell like just water. I called the guy and of course no answer so now I am in a panic.

I have worked on cars and all seems normal to me but I just need a second opinion so I can stop worrying about that ^(%@ Celica . Does everything sound normal to you all?

Thanks

(it's a 1995 GT Auto)

This post has been edited by ETNRIDER: Mar 14, 2009 - 8:10 PM

well is the coolant low? hows the oil level? wheres it smoking from under the hood?

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All the fluids are perfect. The smoke is comming from around the manifold. I think it is mostly burning off the splatter from where the coolant got on everything when the head blew and during the change.

let the engine cool and pour some water over the exhaust manifold, the mech should have cleaned that up post repair.