So today i was cruising driving normal and my car was running absolute sweet, no strange noises or loss of power. I was behind a kombi van doing maybe 20 kmph and as he turned off down a street i accelerated slightly to speed up to 50kmph and my car started choking really really bad and sounding horrible. I then continued driving, it wasnt overheating and had good oil pressure. But also it was blowing blueish smoke. I drove it 3kms home and i have a really steep drive way and while trying to get it up the driveway the motor was shaking really bad trying to build up the power to get up the drive way. Only thing ive checked so far was radiator and its still full with coolant with no oil in it. What you guys think?

have you checked for coolant in the oil?

no coolant in oil and no oil in coolant

blue smoke is usually oil burning could be from any number of sources like pcv , turbo , rings , etc start with a compression test and go from there

Sounds like you've done a gasket some where.

Quote: Originally Posted by HTURBO [View Post] Sounds like you've done a gasket some where. yep either a turbo or a head gasket from what your saying generally speaking though it's hard for a vl to break a head gasket into an oil gallery which would be the only cause for 'blue' smoke more inclined to think you have a turbo issue

I'm leaning more towards head gasket as it's bad miss fire as well plus there was a f/s thread on this car saying it getting new motor possible high comp conversion ---------- Post added 29-04-12 at 12:35 ---------- A compression test result will tell all

Yepp compression test tomorrow. Its deffo not firing on all cylinders

Have you done a recent service at all? Or anything to the car

What head gasket was being used on the car?

standard nissan mate ---------- Post added 29-04-12 at 22:29 ---------- Quote: Originally Posted by jbonez [View Post] Have you done a recent service at all? Or anything to the car did an oil change last week and cleaned the air filter

You didnt overfill the oil at all? A mate did it to his pulsar (yes it was me) and it would blow smoke under initial load when moving from a standstill

nope.... 4th cylinder is goneskis so over it Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by qwertsta [View Post] nope.... 4th cylinder is goneskis so over it Had that issue once. I'd blown a little slit/gap in the head gasket. Hopefully it's that. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Yehh its for sale. So over it. Out of rego next month and if its still not sold i will strip it

i guess compression test showed the fault then down on 4th