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Old Jul 12, 2004 | 11:39 PM
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Question cars smoking

my car is somoking pretty bad the smoke is a white color is it something bad im not shure what it is is it something little
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Old Jul 13, 2004 | 12:04 AM
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Coolant in the motor. The rotary equivalent of a dying headgasket.
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Old Jul 13, 2004 | 01:00 PM
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is there a smell like burning oil?? cuz it might be your oil line to your metering pump, on my car that happend and it leaked onto my manifold and was making a bunch of smoke.
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Old Jul 13, 2004 | 04:02 PM
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I assume that this smoke is coming out of the exhaust system? White, with no smell of oil would be a coolant leak. Blueish tint with burnt oil smell would be oil. Good luck!
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