Strange smell

chris1388 · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject: Strange smell

Hi guys, i have another issue i want to see if anyone on here can help me with. Ok i recently changed my oil and am running amsoil. Now prior to changing the oil, i always smelt a sort of burny kinda smell coming from the engine i think. Like if i in traffic and thing i would smell it. I thought is ma clutch from riding, but now i change oil and i put in ma amsoil.

I smell the amsoil before, so i know how it smells. Now when i idling and sitting in the car i getting the sweet scent of the amsoil that has replaced the old scent. The car has no oil leaks, nor does it burn/consume oil. It works perfect, i just wanted to see if anyone could explain to me whats happening here ???

wagonrunner · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:12 pm Post subject:

does your crankcase vent to atmosphere?
via small K&N filter for example.

chris1388 · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject:

No my own not like amir own Laughing

slimshiney · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:38 am Post subject:

I get that also...but only for the first drive....thought maybe it is any residue oil that's caught in the bay...or maybe around the filter...

chris1388 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:34 pm Post subject:

na boy i don't think it is that, i changed to a brand new filter as well with last oil change. Anyone else cud say why this happening, note the car is NOT leaking or burning oil.

wagonrunner · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject:

stock airbox and filter too?
hose from pcv vale to airbox / pipe properly secured?

other than that, sure you didn't spill any in the bay?
or wipe some excess with a rag, or on a surface somewehre in the vehicle.

chris1388 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:02 pm Post subject:

No is a cone filter with some aluminium piping, no airbox. And naa, i didnt spill any anywhere or anything so. Remember i was smelling the old oil before too, now with the new one i know is the oil because i smell the oil before i put it in

janfar · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:13 pm Post subject:

On the top of the engine should have 2 lines coming out. Check too see of they leaking. Could be that.

slimshiney · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject:

anything yet on this?...chris...?

chris1388 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:51 pm Post subject:

Fellas, i not seein anywhere leaking. And the way that smells if it were leaking i would see the evidence on my dipstick. I check all the time and the oil is right up to the mark and does not move.

ssankar · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject:

If the smell is mixed with the smell of hot rubber, usually means there's a coolant leak, or a problem with the cooling system.

adriano7910 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject:

gosh boy chris u leaking oil. cuz u tell meh u need a quart of amsoil again

chris1388 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject:

disregard the above comment in you guys analysis of my problem.
ssankar, that is an interesting diagnosis, i would like to hear some more if you can expand a bit??

D_bodyguard · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject:

^^ bro i feel he chupid yh know but i doh judge ppl Laughing

.........never smelt how coolant does smell while burning but oil by itself does smell like burning ruber to me . Mr. Green

ssankar · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:31 am Post subject:

D_bodyguard · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:12 am Post subject:

^^lol

janfar · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:14 am Post subject:

Install an oil catch can.

My $0.02c

chris1388 · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:57 pm Post subject:

Also you only smell it when the car hot and has been running for a while

cinco · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject:

pull the hose going to your cold air intake from the valve cover and smell in there most probably oil just going in there and burning off and you smell it. see if you CAI has a leak on any of the rubber couplings holding it together and check the cone filter to see if it is getting oil on it.
sounds like it just might be the blow by going into the intake that you smell.
remember the aluminum gets hot (and cools) quicker than plastic so you will smell the oil there might even be some burnt oil residue in the pipe

chris1388 · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:26 pm Post subject:

here is a pic of my engine, i dont have any hose going to the intake from the valve cover

Click for full-size.