2014 cruz bellowing white smoke

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Dec 6, 2023 | 9:57 AM

malibu6767

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2014 cruz bellowing white smoke

I have a 14 cruz 1.8 had a failed oil cooler I believe as coolant was leaking into the oil. Changed the oil cooler now oil is clean and coolant bottle is staying full no leaks. But my issues is soon as I start the car it just bellows white smoke out the tailpipe to much that I can't even drive it to try and clear it out. I'm guessing the cylinders, exhaust and cat had a mmbunch of liquid in them from failed oil cooler. What can I do to get the smoking to go away or even a little better to be able to drive it and burn off what's in the exhaust? I don't think headgasket is bad as coolant was disappearing overnight before oil cooler replacement and now it's not. Any ideas what I should do? Also compression is between 215 and 240 on all cylinders

Dec 6, 2023 | 4:39 PM

mountainmanjoe

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how would coolant get into the cylinders from a failed cooler? Even if it did, it would burn off pretty quickly.
Billowing white smoke is a textbook sign of blown head gasket.