Q: White smoke
Truck is ticking under the hood, and lots of white smoke from exhaust. All gaskets and lifters were replaced previously to this happening. Was replaced because of the ticking noise and there was coolant in the oil,milky looking.
My car has 150000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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