the engine diagnosis game!

Who wants to play?!

So I took the dart to a friends house Friday night (100 mile round trip), returned Saturday at 1, then headed out to a wedding 35 miles away at 1:30. 10 Miles into the trip as a car ahead of me was slowing down to turn right, I passed and opened it up, and instantly the cab was full of smoke. Stopped at a gas station, looked under the car, didn't see any oil leaking.

Back on the road. When ever I got on the throttle it would smoke alot more than if I was just cruising. Decided that I needed to stop again and look under the hood. I could see that there was an oil leak, as there was oil on the timing chain cover. Figured it was leaking out, fan was blowing it on the header making it smoke, and blowing it through a hole in the firewall. However, I also heard something that I hadn't heard when I had oil leaks before, sounded like a valve opening or closing was my thought.

Anyway, didn't think it was too serious, drove it to the wedding, then parked it and brought it back home Sunday. Same symptoms as before.

I got into it tonight taking it apart, and now I know what is wrong as it is all apart in the garage.

But who else knows what happened?

And possibly why? (I'm not sure why)

I will follow up with the answer and lots more questions tomorrow.

Thanks,

Steve