Does this look like a coolent problem

[SY#2910]

I have had my sy now for a couple weeks. It has smoked at idle from day one. I figured it was a coolent leak in the head gasket area. Well after pulling the heads today, this is what I am looking at. Does it look like a coolent leak? Is that why the valves are almost white? I am going top put it back together tomorrow and start it and see if I fixed the smoking problem with all new gaskets (head, manifold, upper/lower intake, TB, Exhaust, etc) I am also replacing the valve stem seals. I was told that the motor only has 600 miles on it but I have the seals and am going to replacce them anyway just to be safe. Anyway this is about the coloring on the valves in the picture. Thanks for your time and comments.

 

[canadian]

where are the pictures?

 

[nick041881]

i had a crack in one of my cylinder walls and burning cooland made my valves look similar but not as white. could be running lean too?

 

[SY#2910]

Well this is just a follow up for anyone searching for head gasket problems. I replaced the head gaskets and it fixed the problem. Truck does not smoke any longer.