Howdy all, new member and long time lurker with a head scratcher for you.
2005 Canyon 3.5 I5 290k miles and has never smoked up until this point. The following is the background of what is going on.
When I was changing oil last week I noticed the oil wasn’t draining like it should (too slow and with a gurgle sound every so often), so I popped the oil cap. Heard a shh kind of like when you open a coke bottle and of course the oil then overshot the drain pan.
I started investigating why there would be pressure build up, and found out the PCV orifice and breather hole were full of a dark tan slimy substance (not what I’d call 100% milkshake more oil colored). The PCV orifice (the one with the 3/32 hole) was completed stopped up and I used a drill bit (by hand no tool) and pipe cleaners to open it back up. I cleaned out the “Vortec Box” as I call it which was also full of that same slimy substance.
Finished changing oil, and cranked it up no smoke.
The next day I cranked it to go to work and the biggest plume of smoke I’d ever seen came out of the back. It started off white for the first 10 seconds and then switched to blue. Every time now that it sits (while I’m at work or overnight) it will do the same thing although the cloud is somewhat better than it has been.
My question… does anyone have a thought on what’s going on? Could the system be pulling that gunk still after a week? Is the PCV pulling too much vacuum now that it’s clean and pulling oil in? I find it hard to believe valve seals and/or even a head gasket would coincidentally die right after I cleaned the PCV and breather.
TLDR Cleaned PCV orifice, vortec box, and breather, and now truck smokes without any other history of smoking
2005 Canyon 3.5 I5 290k miles and has never smoked up until this point. The following is the background of what is going on.
When I was changing oil last week I noticed the oil wasn’t draining like it should (too slow and with a gurgle sound every so often), so I popped the oil cap. Heard a shh kind of like when you open a coke bottle and of course the oil then overshot the drain pan.
I started investigating why there would be pressure build up, and found out the PCV orifice and breather hole were full of a dark tan slimy substance (not what I’d call 100% milkshake more oil colored). The PCV orifice (the one with the 3/32 hole) was completed stopped up and I used a drill bit (by hand no tool) and pipe cleaners to open it back up. I cleaned out the “Vortec Box” as I call it which was also full of that same slimy substance.
Finished changing oil, and cranked it up no smoke.
The next day I cranked it to go to work and the biggest plume of smoke I’d ever seen came out of the back. It started off white for the first 10 seconds and then switched to blue. Every time now that it sits (while I’m at work or overnight) it will do the same thing although the cloud is somewhat better than it has been.
My question… does anyone have a thought on what’s going on? Could the system be pulling that gunk still after a week? Is the PCV pulling too much vacuum now that it’s clean and pulling oil in? I find it hard to believe valve seals and/or even a head gasket would coincidentally die right after I cleaned the PCV and breather.
TLDR Cleaned PCV orifice, vortec box, and breather, and now truck smokes without any other history of smoking
