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Originally Posted by silicon212
Keep your pants on, there are other causes of this as well. Any sort of crankcase pressurization will put oil in the breather - but sometimes it's not a blowby issue. A blown head gasket can do this if it's in the right place, as can a plugged PCV valve (which is why I asked).
BHW does your PCV valve receive a good dose of vacuum?
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Are there really other causes?? Thats VERY good to know, i just got really worried there. I thought when you have a blown head gasket it causes whitish smoke? And mine is more white then blue i think as you might be able to see in my video..And also, my car has had a history of gaskets going bad left and right from when it was sitting around so maybe this could be it, along with other things like valve stem seals, who knows. Isn't there a way to tell by looking in the coolant tank? I haven't noticed any coolant loss at all, so maybe this isn't it. I'm running in circles now. I'd be better off preparing myself to take apart the engine and actually taking a look at everything.
So i just checked the smoke, i really wanna say its more close to a white color with a small hint of blue and i think it does smell like oil. It DOESNT smell like antifreeze,which has a sweet sort of maple syrup smell right?
I just wanna say a few things that might help. I don't get why it doesn't smoke when i'm driving, say stuck in traffic (if i do end up sitting absolutely still it will try to smoke however). I think its just when the car sits still with no movement for 5-10 minutes that it'll smoke. When i knew i had to idle somewhere i actually tried putting it in drive and using the E-brake to keep the car still..sure enough it started to smoke like always. So after i did this it brought me back to the question "why doesn't it smoke in traffic?" I figured that traffic is never usually at an absolute stand still, so when i had to idle somewhere i tried holding the RPMS to about 1,800-2000 RPM, this helped a little bit but it STILL smoked!....
After all of this, i concluded that when the engine is under a load, it doesn't smoke..i'm not exactly sure what that means though...So using the conclusion, if i had to idle, i should leave it in D, use the E-brake and/or step on the brake, and bring the RPMS up as high as i can (without burning out lol). So if that indeed is correct that'll save me a little bit of embarrassment when i have to idle, but it'll be a chore to do lol.