Mitsubishi Repair: headgasket or cracked head or bad rings, suzuki sidekick, head gasket

Question
hello and thank you for helping me out well i have a 95 suzuki sidekick and it has the 16 valve 1.6 engine and its a mitsubishi engine so i thought i would ask. with 200,000 miles on it and i just got it to run but it seems like its been awhile sence it ran but when it started i could see some white smoke out the tail pipe and when i riv it up i see oil smoke also i think but its alot of smoke and there was some white stuff on dip stick and oil cap but after running awhile that went away but still smoked out tail pipe so let me know what it could be and what i can do but i also can do headgasket change i have done one on a dodge neon so i can do one but i also wanted to know if its worth doing it or not so let me know what it sounds like and thank you very much for helping me out

Answer
Jenny: My thoughts would be that it is a cracked head gasket. But with 200,000 miles on that engine, it could be needing an overhaul. White smoke is to be the sign of a cracked head gasket. As you are getting water into the oil and so the color of the smoke. If you are getting alot of black smoke, that would be oil smoke and so the rings would be bad. In that they are letting the oil run by the rings. Like I said with that many miles I would think of doing an overhaul. Hope this helps and good luck!