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Re[2]: white smoke

To: Hoon Kim <hoon@pixar.com>, noji <noji@snowman.med.umn.edu>
Subject: Re[2]: white smoke
From: Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:46:28 -0700
Hoon,

Take a mirror and hold it near the exhaust after letting it idle and then 
have someone gun it a bit.

Then rub your fingers on the mirror. If it's oil you'll know right away when you
smear the mirror. Otherwise the water will dribble off the mirror. In either 
case, if it's a lot you might want to give Mike Young a call. Hopefully it will 
be minor like a gasket problem.

Fred
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Subject: Re: white smoke
Author:  noji <noji@snowman.med.umn.edu>
Date:    6/27/2000 12:12 PM


Hoon,
     
A general guess.  Normally oil produces black smoke and water will produce 
white smoke.  My guess is that you have coolant leaking in from somewhere (head 
gasket).  When the car is warm then the smoke (steam) will not be visible.
     
Dana
     
Hoon Kim wrote:
     
> I have a '67 1600, and everytime I let it sit a little, and then start it
> lots of whitish, gray smoke billow out of my exhaust. I'm not sure if it is 
> just the water condensation, but I doesn't smell clean. I'm not sure if it 
> is oil or not. It only happens when I first start the car, but goes away
> shortly after. Of course the longer it sits, the more smoke. How would I 
> fix this problem, or check to see if oil is leaking into the gas. Thanks. 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>                      Hoon Kim
>    ______\____       hoon@pixar.com 
>  :/_()_____()_;      '67 1600
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
     

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