I got the car 3 days ago. It had less then L of OIL in it. I changed the oil yest. I wasnt driving the car for about 3 days but I did start it a couple of times. Today I came after school and started the car and I saw some smoke coming out of exhaust. I got a clean paper towel and asked my friend to rev up the engine (it doesn't make any smoke until I rev it up and let the gas go) I held the towel against the muffler while my friend was reving the engine. Nothing black came out, there was some water but that was it. Then I took out one of the spark plugs to see if there is any oil on it. The spark plugs look fine they are just old so I will need to replace them really soon. Can any one tell me if this is normal on 95 Celica ST 1.8L?
Thank you very much

P.S. I hope its not the piston rings!!!

Well if its not oil....it may be ur pistons >>

No its not normal, for any car

This post has been edited by Smlogg: Jun 20, 2005 - 3:55 PM

it is your piston rings they are bad and oil is blowing past them.... how many miles does ure car have on it ???

90K

so if black fumes come out and stain the cloth or you have black on your exhaust tip then that means ur leaking oil?

no, white smoke means oil burning inside the engine somewhere

hey i have a similar problem too!! i was in a parking lot one day with a couple of my friends and i juss got a muffler put on so i wanted him to rev it for me and i saw a little smoke i was like whoa... and then in my garage i can see a splatter on my floor like black dots on the floor that look like they came from my exhaust... i dunno what could be wrong either it has 82000 miles on it if that helps..

Well, the tip is kinda black (it might be because of the dirt) there is nothing on the towel when I put it against the muffler with reving engine. I might use some SLICK 50 and see if will fix anything.

Well, I drove the car for 30 min today. I brought up to 6K couple of times. Then I got home and asked my friend to look if there is any smoke coming out when I rev the engine. I reved it up to 3-4K and there wasnt any smoke. WEIRD.

But I am still gonna get some SLICK50 even though it is like 17$ a bottle. I think its worth it.