Hi i have a 1988 ford ranger with a 1979 ford 302 in it i have had my heads cleaned and milled 10 over for more compression i bout a edelbrock performer 289 4bl intake and a edelbrock 600cfm 4bl carb i recently just put evrything on includiong my heads i did not mark my distributer so i brout it to a shop to get it running they did just that however he said my smoke is white wich could indicated a bad head gasket i got the truck home and i started it and reved it up and alot of water shot out of my tail pipe alot ! and my oil was milky colored i new this was prollly a head gasket due to the fact of the water shooting out so i replaced the head gasket and i drained my oil and put a new oil filter on and filled it up it fired right up hardley anysmoke comes out at idle but when reving it up alot of smoke comes out no water though just smoke but however my oil turned a milky collored again should i keep changing my oil ? is there still water in it ? whats wrong please help ? and please dont say cracked head or craked blok you can answer me back at Rcougar8@aol.com thanks

 

Milky oil is a definite sign of water. Whether it is just leftover water from the leaky head gasket or if you still have a leak is impossible to tell over the internet.

Change your oil again for starters. Hopefully it will stay clear. But it is possible that the intake manifold or head gasket is leaking water.

When you milled the heads it may have affected the way the intake manifold's water passages line up with the heads. If you do end up pulling the intake manifold off to fix a leak, I would try top quality gaskets and run a bead of silicon or gasket sealer around the water passages.

If that does not cure the problem you may need to have a very small amount of material surfaced from each side of the intake manifold. Basically, by milling the heads, the gap between the cylinder's 'V' is now closer together, so the manifold could be setting just a hair too high. If you remove a little material from the cylinder/manfiold mating surface, the manifold will drop down just a little.

Also, maybe your new manifold is warped? Of coures I am assuming you are following the proper bolt tightenging sequence and torqe.

 

thank you ill give it a try i think im going to try to drain my oil and flush the bad stuff out with fuel oil if that doesnt cure it it looks like ill have to try the intake manifold and yes i did follow the torque procedures thank you for your help

 

When you mill your head it usually doesnt throw the alignment between the intake and head mating surfaces out of wack unless you mill a lot. .040 would be that range where you would have to mill your intake. It could possibly all the other oil gunk leftover. Try an engine flush.

 

thanks i drained the oil and pluged it back up then i pored deisel fuel in there and cranked the engine over without the coil connected so it woulkdnt start then i drained the deisel fuel and put new filter and new oil in it and its looking preety clean but im still getting white smoke but not as much as i was so im guessing its still burning water out of the pipes

 

Houston, we have a problem !!!!