PyRo9862

Yesturday my heater controll valve broke, it wasn't leaking much, and wasn't overheating, so I drove it about a mile home. Just as I pulled into the driveway it hit 260 degrees. I replaced the thing today, and now when I drive I get a ton of smoke out the exhaust, I think it has a blue tint to it, but i'm not 100% sure.
I also have some smoke that may be comming from the area of the radiator cap. I'm not sure wheather or not its comming from the cap though.
I just started my car again and it isn't smoking nearly as much, did I crack my heads of block? Great.
It got worse as it warmed up, oil looks fine, the engine bay was filled with smoke too, i'm not sure if that just got in there from the exhaust, or if its somthing else.

One more idea, I have an open element, so when that hose was spraying coolent, is it possible that it just sucked in a bunch of coolent and is still burning it off?

IROCThe5.7L

See if you can smell your exhaust when its blowing smoke. If it smells sweet, your burning coolant.

PyRo9862

It does smell sweet, but at one point I smelled somthing which was definatly oil.
Thought I would add, the oil looks fine. However if it was a broken head gasket, it was only running for 10-15 minutes with one, so it may have just not gotten into the oil enough to be noticable yet.

vampiroc

if the engine bay is filled with smoke that usually means oil is spraying out and onto the manifolds/headers and burning off. my car is currently doing this right now because the set of trick valve covers I got for too good to be true are bent and the passenger side leaks oil onto my headers and burns off . aside from that, it does sound like a blown head gasket.

Stekman

Do a compression and/or leak down test.

PyRo9862

I have to get myself a compression tester, I will do that, as far as a leakdown test I don't have acess to a compressor which I need for that correct?
I figured out I have this problem every time I add a significant amount of new anti-freeze. The mechanic my father had me take it to wasn't a help, he just said it was fine that his car used to burn oil for a week every time it was changed then it would stop untill it was changed again.
I need to get myself a compressor