Massively rich, or coolant seal gone?
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Massively rich, or coolant seal gone?
Started my car up today in 2 degree weather..
Puffed a lotta whitish/maybe bluish smoke that smelled a little like sweet gas.
I immediately thought cooland seal... however, after driving down the street (trailing a HUGE cloud of smoke) it went away once the car had warmed up to operating temp.
During this time, even though i was in 4th at 2000rpms, when i let off the gas it'd backfire..
was the ecu just massively rich cuz of the cold?
Puffed a lotta whitish/maybe bluish smoke that smelled a little like sweet gas.
I immediately thought cooland seal... however, after driving down the street (trailing a HUGE cloud of smoke) it went away once the car had warmed up to operating temp.
During this time, even though i was in 4th at 2000rpms, when i let off the gas it'd backfire..
was the ecu just massively rich cuz of the cold?
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At this time I wouldn't worry about it, unless it happens again, except the backfire...was it fully warmed up when it backfired? Did it ever backfire or do the smoke thing before?
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Re: Massively rich, or coolant seal gone?
Originally posted by amused
Started my car up today in 2 degree weather..
Puffed a lotta whitish/maybe bluish smoke that smelled a little like sweet gas.
I immediately thought cooland seal... however, after driving down the street (trailing a HUGE cloud of smoke) it went away once the car had warmed up to operating temp.
During this time, even though i was in 4th at 2000rpms, when i let off the gas it'd backfire..
was the ecu just massively rich cuz of the cold?
Started my car up today in 2 degree weather..
Puffed a lotta whitish/maybe bluish smoke that smelled a little like sweet gas.
I immediately thought cooland seal... however, after driving down the street (trailing a HUGE cloud of smoke) it went away once the car had warmed up to operating temp.
During this time, even though i was in 4th at 2000rpms, when i let off the gas it'd backfire..
was the ecu just massively rich cuz of the cold?
Also did you remove the cold-start assist system? Maybe thats why you were burning coolant.
God only knows everytime i start my car i get some white smoke...but it goes away and it passed the geyser test the last time i checked...
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once the car had fully warmed up, it stopped smoking and backfiring
it was too cold and i was in too much of a rush to stop and check the coolant while it was cold. right now its -7 out where i live so ill do it in a few days when it warms up enough for me to take the car out
it was too cold and i was in too much of a rush to stop and check the coolant while it was cold. right now its -7 out where i live so ill do it in a few days when it warms up enough for me to take the car out
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I had the same problem last weekend, but now my car seems to be fine. *knocks on wood* I believe that it was just my car running extremely rich, combined with condensation in the exhaust and possibly coolant from the sub zero assist system. Once my car warmed up it was fine, and it hasn't done it since. It doesn't seem to be using coolant, so hopefully my motor is ok. :-/
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Originally posted by amused
once the car had fully warmed up, it stopped smoking and backfiring
it was too cold and i was in too much of a rush to stop and check the coolant while it was cold. right now its -7 out where i live so ill do it in a few days when it warms up enough for me to take the car out
once the car had fully warmed up, it stopped smoking and backfiring
it was too cold and i was in too much of a rush to stop and check the coolant while it was cold. right now its -7 out where i live so ill do it in a few days when it warms up enough for me to take the car out
If so, your seals are on their way out
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