i tracked down the smoking thermal reactor problem.....its oil...

when i was under the hood i looked for other leaks and suck and noticed i have oil leaking from the underside of the front of the engine. could this possibly be the casing gaskets? also could this be the reason my oil pressure gague doesn't work?

 

nobody has anything to say about this? not even a u r a jackass or correct assumption? someone has to be able to help me with this one.

 

Clean up the underside and see if you can source the leak, it could be the oil pan gasket, or it could be a number of other things. What year/model is your car? If it has the beehive oil cooler, that could be the source of your leak.

As for the pressure gauge, check the connection on the sender unit, a little mushroom shaped brass thing on the rear driver side of the engine off the side. The connection sometimes gets a little dirty.

 

it's an 83 gs 12a n/a bone stock

 

front of engine near the thermal reactor exhaust manifold? It will be your OMP, there really is only a couple common leaks on these things. What I did with my engine is I took off the omp, make a blockoff plate out of think aluminum and began premixing my gas. The problem could also be a leaking oil pan, but then it wouldn't be leaking onto your thermal reactor.

If you have a picture I could tell you in like 2 seconds, the OMP that im talking about is on the front plate of the engine offset to the right (while standing looking at the engine from the passenger side fender) of the intake manifold.

EDIT: ok found a picture, this shows the location of the oil metering pump. As for the pressure gauge not working I agree that the wire is probally just disconnected, it is located below the beehive oil cooler, and the wire connects to the bellshaped (gold colored) thing, the wire clips onto the tip where it jets out.

 

thanks. i will look at it shortly and give an update. I dont have any pics yet, but i will try to get some pics soon.

 

83' means you have the beehive cooler, look below where the oil filter mounts.

 

ok. i will check that. on the plus side i got it to run so im going to take it to the parts store, pick up some **** to clean my engine with so i can see things, and i will let you know waht i find. thank you for your help guys. i truly appreciate it

 

it is my omp...you guys are badass. i couldnt locate the oil pressure sensor but i was on limited time. i will look for it tomorrow morning and see what i can do about that. once again, thank you for your help.

 

BTW: you should have cats, not a thermal reactor... that manifold is just the suck (it LOOKS like a TR manifold, but its not)