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1995 Celica 1.8, could this be high oil pressure?
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funkeytoad
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Apr 6, 2013, 12:01 AM
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1995 Celica 1.8, could this be high oil pressure?
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I posted about this car a month or so ago about it leaking oil from the head gasket. Long story short... had the car looked at by 2 garages and I went with the lowest estimate because I'm broke. Guy replaced the head gasket 5 times and it leaked again every time. Not only was it leaking out side the engine but was also leaking internally into one of the cylinders. Now I have taken it to a top notch shop (or so they say) and with a compression test it failed on #1 cylinder. Bad valve they said, and with my history from previous shop they decided a brand new head was in order. I had little choice so payed them $ 1.900.00 to do it. Now the car runs great, haven't noticed any leakage around head gasket but I'm now noticing blue smoke from the tail pipe once in a while when driving and have had to add some oil because it was a little low. I'm worried that the gasket has failed again and allowing oil to leak into the cylinders again. (They assured me that the block was flat and had no cracks b4 putting new head on.) I talked to the shop today and they said they would do another compression and leak down test but thought that it was now probably bad piston rings. I don't know, it never smoked b4 and it does not smoke at start up when cold, it seems to do it just when taking off from a stop or when down shifting.
Here is my question, could this be an oil pressure problem? The PO had the engine rebuilt and had the crank knife edged and it bored 20 over. I have read online that knife edging a crank shaft can cause oil pressure to go high but I have no idea if this is true but it does seem to fit my trouble. The car has no oil pressure gauge so I don't know how high it really is. Really stumped on this and growing very broke.
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Hammer Time
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Apr 6, 2013, 3:26 AM
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Re: 1995 Celica 1.8, could this be high oil pressure?
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Stop creating new threads to the same issue. Post your follow ups to your original question.
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