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billowing white smoke
Posted by Jeremy [Email] (more from Jeremy) on Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:02:05
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I finally got my project car to fire up. Its a 1980 900 Turbo, ..but it is BILLOWING white smoke, -enough to fill the neighbor's back yard.
I did a compression test and got 120, 135, 135, 140. Seems pretty low.
So, looks like it may be a head gasket.
My question is: I know the B engine often has water pump failure. When the pump fails--what actually happens? I mean could the coolant mix with oil that way? I guess even if it did it wouldn't enter the combustion chamber. So probably a HG. I plan on starting it a bunch more times when the neighbor isn't home to make sure it's not something else. Well, at least it started.
Jeremy
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Posts in this Thread:
- billowing white smoke, Jeremy, Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:02:05 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: billowing white smoke, Andy in PDX, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:39:43
- planning leak down test, Jeremy, Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:38:00
- Re: billowing white smoke, John Blas, Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:30:39
- Two kinds of white smoke..., Larry West , Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:26:00
- What does the smoke smell like?, DougM , Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:26:20
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