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smokey
Dodge Dakota
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6/16/2005
10:44:37
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 Subject: 5.2l Smoking, and buring up oil
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Hello,
I have a 99 5.2l and it is consuming oil and smoking out the back pipes. I recently had the heads replaced due to the smell of burning coolant (cracked heads).
However, it continues to consume oil and smoke out of the back. Could it be my piston rings? Or something else? It seems to have most of its power there most of the time, sometimes it dogs out. There is also black soot that gets built up on my tailgate and rear bumper.
Please comment, i am in need of some help.
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Rob C
Dodge Dakota
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6/16/2005
13:14:59
|  RE: 5.2l Smoking, and buring up oil
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Your belly pan gasket on the bottom of your intake manifold is leaking. This causes the intake to suck oil from out of the lifter valley and into your combustion chambers. It's a very common problem for owners of 3.9, 5.2 & 5.9 engines. The symptoms are high oil comsumption, smoking tail pipe, engine knock and if you look down your throttle body into your intake manifold you should see an oily buildup. Sometimes the oil isn't that obvious until you swab the inside with a clean rag and the rag comes up oily. Too bad the guys that did your heads didn't think of replacing the belly pan gasket while they had your intake off. This is so common that almost everyone will eventually need to replace the gasket. Some people replace the intake manifold with a M1 performance intake which has no belly pan gasket to leak. Do a search on 'Belly pan gasket' on this site, you'll get about a grizillion returns. It's not expensive or difficult to replace, just a pain. Good luck!
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smokey
Dodge Dakota
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6/16/2005
15:02:30
| RE: 5.2l Smoking, and buring up oil
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any chance it could be my rings? I also had oil leaking out of my stock valve cover breather (before new head install).
Since they put my new heads and new edelbrock valve taller covers w/ no breather just a oil cap, the oil cap keeps popping off, i was told this could be cause by blow by from bad rings.
Think a compression check would show bad rings or not? I hope its only the bellpan gasket, that would be a nice reason to buy the m1
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Sneezer
Dodge Dakota
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6/16/2005
15:51:47
| RE: 5.2l Smoking, and buring up oil
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You need a filter on that valve cover. You can get away with a press on one. I think K&N makes a nice one, but anyone that fits into the grommet will be fine. The PCV should be left alone on the other side.
I'd check the belly gasket before the rings. Almost every single magnum engine has, had or will have a blown gasket. Good luck.
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smokey
Dodge Dakota
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6/16/2005
16:48:31
| RE: 5.2l Smoking, and buring up oil
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Well i have a push on oil cap and it keeps popping off. I have been through like three of them lol.
I went ahead and purchased the compression tool, going to check that and look down my TB this weekend. I forgot to mention its supercharged, and already blew the bellpan once, and purchased the re-inforced kit from krc.
I am really hoping that its just the gasket, an M1 would be nice.
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Ed Blankson-S
Dodge Dakota
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3/14/2012
18:08:57
| RE: 5.2l Smoking, and buring up oil
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Where is the belly pan gasket located on the engine. It seems mine needs a touch up. Our terminologies in Ghana vary considerably from that of the States.
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Curly
Dodge Dakota
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3/15/2012
04:04:22
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The "belly pan" or "plenum gasket" is located under
the intake manifold.
What year is your truck what symptoms are you
having?
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