My engine makes a clicking noise when i accelerate and the car feels like its chugging along the smoke smells like rubber
SOURCE: puffs blue smoke
Blue smoke is caused by engine oil entering the cylinder area and being burned along with the fuel air mixture. As with the white smoke, just a small drop of oil leaking into the cylinder can produce blue smoke out the tailpipe. Blue smoke is more likely in older or higher mileage vehicles than newer cars with fewer miles.
This could mean a cracked head or bad gasket....It costly
SOURCE: White Smoke From Tail Pipe/Exhaust
It often means that you are burning antifreeze. You asked if it needs antifreeze, have you noticed any leaking out of the reservoir tank while you are running it? Sometimes when the head gasket goes it will produce a passage for the antifreeze to pass from the capillaries into the combustion chamber. It is easy to check if you have an air compressor. Remove one of the rear sparkplugs and the radiator cap. Fill the radiator and then push some air into the sparkplug hole (get a good seal in case a valve is open). Repeat with all the cylinders and watch for air bubbles coming up into the radiator. If bubbles come up or fluid is pumped out, the head gasket is blown and must be replaced. It is more likely to happen at the back of the engine because it is farthest away from the fan and therefore gets less cooling. Also check your oil for discoloration. If it is a brownish color it could mean your oil and antifreeze are mixing and has the potential to damage your bearings
SOURCE: Blue smoke from exhaust on first start up
Blue smoke come from burning oil. This means that you have an oil leak somewhere that it is getting burned up and exiting the muffler. First thing I would do would be to check your engine oil level. After you are sure that it is good, I would suggest taking the vehicle to a mechanic to have them see if they can find where the leak is. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for rating my response and for using FixYa!
SOURCE: Engine noise
Hi there. There might be a number of things to consider here, but the two worst things (most expensive) that it might be is either piston slap or crank rumble. Now, given that you have changed the power steering pump, it sounds like you might have an external noise and so my advice prior to you having changed the power steering pump would have been to disconnect the pump belt firstly. If the noise was still there, then there is nothing wrong with the power steer system. So you must now do the same with the alternator and A/C pump belts. Have all the belt drives (apart form the cambelt of course) disconnected - if the noise goes away, you have narrowed down the problem area. If the noise is still there, you probably have crank rumble or piston slap. Best way to diagnose piston slap is during the warm-up period of the engine, this is when the pistons are not quite oval and is effectively lose in the cylnder walls. To determine this the most effective way is to play with the accelerator whilst accelerating gently, accerate and then just back-off on the throttle slightly, if you hear the rattling noise, you can play with the sound by easing back on and off the accelerator. You'd actually do the same for crank rumble, but the difference in sound is the crank rumble will sound heavier whereas the piston slap will sound lighter and of higher tone. If that sounds like what you have (either piston slap or crank rumble) then it really is no big deal and I'd wouldn't worry about it too much. If you do think that this is what you might have, then just make sure you are using the right grade of oil and it's a quality oil and all should be fine. Hope this helps. Scottech.
SOURCE: I have black smoke coming from my exhaust
It is over fueling black smoke is diesel. You will need to get all the injectors tested and check the air filter may be clogged. The tapping noise is what is known as a diesel knock. This should leave it when you get the over fueling sorted.
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