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engine covered with oil, stuck PVC valve or equivalent, build up of crankcase pressure blows out top oil under gaskets over engine. However white smoke indicates your 'burnin g' water, coolant, this sounds more like a cracked cylinder head,block, or blown gasket that is allowing oil to escape to the surface, but water to enter a cylinder and vaporise and escape with the exhause gas's, the catalytic converter is trying to burn the residue of the antifreeze and produces the smell. Your fortunate its not in the oil, as antifreeze gets sticky and will stick the rings or a piston. Sounds like a time to spend some money before it gets worse or bail out and replace the engine or car.

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