White smoke everywhere

I've had the car off the road for the last week or so waiting till I could do my brakes. The front was up on stands the whole time so it was tilted up a fair bit.

I've just gone to start it and it is spewing white smoke everywhere. I let it run for about 4-5 minutes and it dosn't look like letting up at all. Is this likely to be burning coolant? And therefore signs of a leaking head gasket?

What would be my next step? Compression test?

thanks

Blown head gasket

Next step is getting a new head gasket...

Have a smell of the smoke and tell us what it smells like

how much white smoke?

I hope you didn't start it while it was still tilted on the stands.

head gasket.

is it smoke or is it steam?

why would it be the head gasket boys? any explanations?

the only thing i cant think is if you did start it whilst it was still on the stand the oil was not full enough to get to the pickup.

Did it start smoking as soon as you started it?

firstly .

u sure u still got oil in the engine?

sounds like either head gasket blown due to no water in the radiator or you started the car whilst tilted and the piston rings are gonskies!

what happens after idling for 5minutes or so? still got white smoke?

Thanks for the replies

I didn't start it whilst it was still on the stands. It was on the ground for nearly a day after I finished the brakes before I started it.

The oil level is fine according to the dip stick. There is still coolant in the tank.

Paul: Alot of smoke

Drew: Will smell it tomorrow and post back

Zilli: Started as soon as I turned it on

XB-16-AX: Not sure exactly how long I had it idling for because I was freaking out quite a bit. But I think it was around 4-5 minutes and the amount hadn't changed.


Also another thing I forgot to mention. It was reluctant to rev. There hasn't been any clues to this in the past really. Never blew any noticable smoke at start up. Just a bit at WOT at higher rpm. Which I figured was reasonably normal.

ps. Engine is a h22a.

thanks again fellas.

at trade school a guys car started pouring smoke out the pipe once.. looked like a smoke machine.

I dont know how they managed it but i think they worked it out to be dumping of fuel into the chamber which caused it to burn off a hell of a lot of fuel causing a heap of smoke. After about 10 mins of driving this went away.

It was cause they were messing with the injectors i think. Maybe worth looking into??

Nah. I'm pretty sure it's not fuel. It was really white in colour and didn't really smell like fuel.

ps. To make things more interesting my windscreen wipers won't turn off when I turn the key to on.... it's like some car demon has possessed my car during last week when it was weak and unable to defend itself.

You sure you didnt fill the engine with too much oil? Maybe the oil tilted into the cylinders.

I would do an oil change and see how that goes.

So uhm.... what does it smell like then?