Holy white smoke! Need advice
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Racer
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From: Ann Arbor MI
Holy white smoke! Need advice
Need advice. Here are some details.
My car has been sitting for about 45 to 60 days while I worked on some fuel issues. In the interim, I poured some Sta-bil in the gas tank.
After I fixed the fuel issue (electric fuel pump) i encountered temperature issues (temperature gauge sky-rocketed after the car warmed and was driven). I thought I traced this issue down to low fuel coolant.
So I poured a little more than a gallon in the radiator, started the car, it appeared to be the fix. Note I did not take the car out for a test drive a at this time. However, I took it out for a drive a few days later. The car started running hot again.
I immediately took the car home, as I sat in my drive way I reved the engine. Each time I did this white smoke billowed out of the exhaust.
I turned the car off then re-checked the radiator. Guess what - about another gallon low on coolant.
OK lay it on me, what do think has happened? Any connection between the white smoke and the coolant or the Sta-bil
By the way this is a relatively new engine
Thanks in advance for your advice.
My car has been sitting for about 45 to 60 days while I worked on some fuel issues. In the interim, I poured some Sta-bil in the gas tank.
After I fixed the fuel issue (electric fuel pump) i encountered temperature issues (temperature gauge sky-rocketed after the car warmed and was driven). I thought I traced this issue down to low fuel coolant.
So I poured a little more than a gallon in the radiator, started the car, it appeared to be the fix. Note I did not take the car out for a test drive a at this time. However, I took it out for a drive a few days later. The car started running hot again.
I immediately took the car home, as I sat in my drive way I reved the engine. Each time I did this white smoke billowed out of the exhaust.
I turned the car off then re-checked the radiator. Guess what - about another gallon low on coolant.
OK lay it on me, what do think has happened? Any connection between the white smoke and the coolant or the Sta-bil
By the way this is a relatively new engine
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Last edited by 1971Ultra; Feb 15, 2005 at 07:36 PM.
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From: Lapeer Michigan
Nothing to do with the Sta-bil.
Its either a cracked head or block, maybe pull the spark plugs out and read them, the bad cylinder should show on the plug.
Then you will have to pull the head to verify.
A bad head gasket would put the compression into the cooling system, intake gasket =coolant would go into the oil pan.
After pulling the plugs, reading them, bring that piston close to the top compression stroke and pressurize the cooling system, it should come out of the bad one.
Starting it with coolant in the cylinder can bend the rods.
Has it been over heated before ?
Its either a cracked head or block, maybe pull the spark plugs out and read them, the bad cylinder should show on the plug.
Then you will have to pull the head to verify.
A bad head gasket would put the compression into the cooling system, intake gasket =coolant would go into the oil pan.
After pulling the plugs, reading them, bring that piston close to the top compression stroke and pressurize the cooling system, it should come out of the bad one.
Starting it with coolant in the cylinder can bend the rods.
Has it been over heated before ?
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Racer
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From: Ann Arbor MI
Originally Posted by 1BAD80
Has it been over heated before ?
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From: WAY DEEP INSIDE AMERICO,YES YOU LIVE HERE TO!! TX
Originally Posted by 1BAD80
Nothing to do with the Sta-bil.
Its either a cracked head or block, maybe pull the spark plugs out and read them, the bad cylinder should show on the plug.
Then you will have to pull the head to verify.
A bad head gasket would put the compression into the cooling system, intake gasket =coolant would go into the oil pan.
After pulling the plugs, reading them, bring that piston close to the top compression stroke and pressurize the cooling system, it should come out of the bad one.
Starting it with coolant in the cylinder can bend the rods.
Has it been over heated before ?
Its either a cracked head or block, maybe pull the spark plugs out and read them, the bad cylinder should show on the plug.
Then you will have to pull the head to verify.
A bad head gasket would put the compression into the cooling system, intake gasket =coolant would go into the oil pan.
After pulling the plugs, reading them, bring that piston close to the top compression stroke and pressurize the cooling system, it should come out of the bad one.
Starting it with coolant in the cylinder can bend the rods.
Has it been over heated before ?
WUZZUP G, glad to see you here on the forum
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From: Fair Oaks, OK
Originally Posted by 1971Ultra
Well I checked the oil via the dip-stick and there is gray gunk all over it.
So hopefully and I am praying for the best case scenario and it is just a head gasket.
So hopefully and I am praying for the best case scenario and it is just a head gasket.
By the way, is that Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in your avatar? I am blind & can't make out who those guys are.
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Racer
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From: Ann Arbor MI
Originally Posted by Stoge
By the way, is that Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in your avatar? I am blind & can't make out who those guys are.
Wow I just changed avatars, the old one is Jimmy Page and Joe Perry of Aerosmith during a photo shoot a few months ago.
