No start, White smoke - ZR-1 Net Registry Forums

pie5566 · 01-10-2009

Today w tried to start my dad's ZR-1 after it had been sitting for a month or so, and it would not start. We tried to jump it, and it turned over. But after a few seconds of cranking it would start to make a screeching-like noise. It was still turning over when this happened. We tried to start this a bunch of times, and it seemed to get very close to starting a few times. After a while (or it might have been doing it the whole time, but the wind just blew it away) it started to blow lots of whit smoke each time we tried to crank it. (the exhaust is really good at blowing smoke rings

). Anyway, it never started. Afterward we noticed that there were little white specks on the exhaust tips. Doesn't white smoke mean coolant in the cylinders, which would mean blown head gasket or cracked cylinder head, right? We should probably do a compression test on it to verify this, correct? Any other possibilities

?

Thanks

01-10-2009	#1
pie5566 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Lake Tahoe, NV Posts: 4	No start, White smoke Today w tried to start my dad's ZR-1 after it had been sitting for a month or so, and it would not start. We tried to jump it, and it turned over. But after a few seconds of cranking it would start to make a screeching-like noise. It was still turning over when this happened. We tried to start this a bunch of times, and it seemed to get very close to starting a few times. After a while (or it might have been doing it the whole time, but the wind just blew it away) it started to blow lots of whit smoke each time we tried to crank it. (the exhaust is really good at blowing smoke rings). Anyway, it never started. Afterward we noticed that there were little white specks on the exhaust tips. Doesn't white smoke mean coolant in the cylinders, which would mean blown head gasket or cracked cylinder head, right? We should probably do a compression test on it to verify this, correct? Any other possibilities? Thanks