white smoke AFTER headgasket repair
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white smoke AFTER headgasket repair
I got everything buttoned up on my headgasket repair last night and I just got it running again, but I'm getting a decent amount of white smoke from the tailpipe... is it possible I have a coolant hose running in the wrong place? Hopefully it's not my brand new headgasket, I don't even want to consider that yet.
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Yup, be sure.
White exhaust smoke, especially with a known head/head gasket problem can be coolant pulled into the cylinder(s) and burned.
I've seen that a lot with cracked heads/blown head gaskets.
It's often to dead give away...
Fred
White exhaust smoke, especially with a known head/head gasket problem can be coolant pulled into the cylinder(s) and burned.
I've seen that a lot with cracked heads/blown head gaskets.
It's often to dead give away...
Fred
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Originally Posted by n8inks
I got everything buttoned up on my headgasket repair last night and I just got it running again, but I'm getting a decent amount of white smoke from the tailpipe... is it possible I have a coolant hose running in the wrong place? Hopefully it's not my brand new headgasket, I don't even want to consider that yet.
Let it run about 30 minutes....it might clear up.
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Yeah, that's it.. and if I would have thought about it a bit it makes sense. When I had it in the garage before I tore it apart, it was running but blowing coolant across the garage... so I unbolted the exhaust and started it and there was no (or little) smoke. I bolted the exhaust back up and it was like a pink floyd concert... my halogen lights on the floor, smoke everywhere.. I was waiting for the guitar solo
It lasted about 20 minutes, so ZUK is right, and after about a month of evenings.. my headgasket is done
It lasted about 20 minutes, so ZUK is right, and after about a month of evenings.. my headgasket is done
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Mine was pretty much like that too, not that bad but for a few minutes it did steam a little... My guess is it was just water that had accumulated in the cat converter and the muffler that finally got steamed out!
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