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 White Smoke
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Ben Lawrance
Level 2 User

Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 52

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:49 pm

Hi Guys,

Just driven home (10mins drive) and noticed that white smoke was coming from the exhuast.

I know that some white smoke is there when the engine is cold, but it was up to temp.

Do i have a problem. I heard something about the head gasket causing this a while ago on the other forum.

Any help much apprieciated.

Cheers
Ben
JB
Mr Quoter-vator

Joined: 16 Feb 2004
Posts: 7405

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:37 pm

was it lots of white smoke?...do the usualy chks ...oil in water and vice versa, compression chk,
Chet T16
Retroholic

Joined: 12 Feb 2004
Posts: 5685

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:11 pm

Lots of white smoke is bad, the 21 died in a cloud of it (thanks hanna!)
Chris H
Forum Moderator

Joined: 02 Mar 2004
Posts: 19978

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:05 am

probably condensation in th exhaust.

Where do you live? (valley, mountain peak etc)
Whats the weather like?
What sort of drivign do you do?

When I had the saab it always kicked out steam from the exhaust, even after a blast to edinburgh and back, I once stuck a new downpipe on it and a good 2 litres of water poured out of the exhaust, gathered condensation nothign else.

On the old 16V hatch I had to empty the mid silencer of water, George helped, there was gallons.
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