Odds are that you had a blocked thermostat or radiator, but that your abuse of your sick car has now ruined the head-gasket. That was steam, not 'white smoke' coming out of the exhaust. Now you need the head or heads taken off the engine, and new gasket fitted, which is a long job for you, or an expensive one at a garage.
Well I see the old head gasket failure has come up. Well I'm here to tell you that anyone that says the head gasket has failed and lead to the white smoke out the tail pile doesn't know what they are talking about. The fools think that water can get into the cylinder but for some reason they can't imagine that the compression would not over power the 18lbs radiator cap and blow the steaming anti freeze out the front of the car. The most likely way for white smoke to come out the exhaust pipe is a intake manifold gasket cutting loose and pouring anti freeze into the intake. Fools they are, don't think, just go by what somebody tells them. Now as for you the fool word applies to you as well. You could have walked five miles or used your smarter then you phone to call for someone but you didn't and now you get to pay the stupid tax.
Most cars that's a head gasket, on some it's a cracked head, still others, it could be an intake gasket, any way you look at it, you have to get a tech inspect, diag, and run some checks to decide what all to get prices for.
It's not dead, There is problem occured in the engine somewhere.
Your car is not dead, it was an inanimate object in the first place, but the engine will never run again
Yup, Sounds like you have killed it.
The original blown head gasket may not have been fatal, but driving 5 miles after the water fell out will have put the nails in the coffin.
It's now nothing more then scrap. Sounds like you seized the block.
Sounds like head gasket - if you've overheated it, you may have warped the head or done some serious internal damage - check the coolant level to start with,
Is the car worth spending about $ 2000.00 + on ?
Did you try starting it
It started blowing white smoke out the tailpipe. I was about 5 miles from my house so I gunned it as fast as I could to get home and the temperature gauge went all the way up really fast. I got home and turned it off. Couple hours later I tried to turn it on and the engine won't even try to turn on. Is it dead?
sounds like a cracked block
