Is my engine finished?, White smoke, overheating, newly installed distributor, oil spraying Options

[Selly_Kuhman]

Not sure where to start, but at the moment my car is shooting up oil under the hood and white smoke is pouring out of the exhaust and a little from the oil filter region. When I leave the car running, and begin to take out the dipstick, oil starts spraying out. I'm not sure if I have a bad ring, or this could happen from installing a distributor incorrectly. Here's the breakdown in case it helps.


May 28- After driving for a while (~90 mins @65mph), it started to idle high and overheat when not moving. For this I added 3 quarts of oil and filled the coolant. It drove fine after that all the way home. Planned to take it to the mechanic the next weekend.

May 31- I was on my way home from work (~15 mins in traffic), and the check engine light came on. Within four seconds the car lost power, and the steering locked up. I had it towed to the mechanic and they saw my distributor was overheating so they changed that.

June 8- When I stopped by to pick it up, the distributor was replaced, but they didn't test drive it yet. I said(regret this now) I will take it to work and let them know how it goes. When I was leaving work to go home that day,(~5mins in traffic) the car wasn't overheating, but the RPM's were almost 2k when I came to red lights or stop signs. Pulled into 7/11, tossed in two quarts of oil. Continued home (~15m in traffic) and the RPM problem went away, but now I noticed smoke coming from under the hood (a lot). I added two more quarts when I got home and took it around the block a few times. White smoke started pouring out of the hood.

June 9- I took the car to the mechanics again,(~5 mins in residential area) though on the way the white smoke was now 90% coming from the exhaust (more when accelerating) and maybe 10% from under the hood.

This post has been edited by Selly_Kuhman: Jun 9, 2016 - 12:11 PM

[kevin311]

my guess would be bad rings or head gasket. Can't think of a scenario where the distributor would cause something like that. Were you checking he oil level each time before adding more to it? That's a ton of oil to go through in a matter of days, granted it sounds like you're burning it. Just curious. How does it sound when it's running at temperature?

This post has been edited by kevin311: Jun 9, 2016 - 12:27 PM