2002 grand am blowing white smoke. Need help!!!

[koolkid341]

I have a 2002 Pontiac grand am. It is blowing white smoke and their Is some milky color to my oil. My question is my head gaskets blown or the lower intake gasket bad. If the lower intake gasket is bad will it allow coolant to get in my oil.

How hard is it to remove the head that is against the firewall.

Any help on my situation will be very helpful.

 

[roger01]

Most likely head gaskets blown. Its not a hard job to do if your mechanically sound. I done mine last summer took me a weekend to do and that's with the time it took the machine shop to mill my heads. Also when getting all the new gaskets get the updated intake gasket kit to save any future problems. I think it costed me around 390 total to do. That's with machine work and all the needed gaskets and fluids.

 

[richardgriese]

^x2 those lower intake manifold gasket that came standard suck and can cause the milky oil. White smoke is head gasket. the fel-pro kit is not too much for all of the gaskets needed for the upper engine - (150?) and it's always a good idea to get the heads looked at). I don't think that it is really hard at all to get the heads off - took my odd number cylinder head (firewall side for cylinders 1,3,5) with the exhaust manifold and all. This is a great time to do spark plugs too since you will have them off and they may be caked with debris or cleaned from the coolant entering the cylinder.

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