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Re: billowing white smoke
Posted by John Blas [Email] (more from John Blas) on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:30:39
In Reply to: billowing white smoke, Jeremy, Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:02:05
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White smoke? Smells funny? Does it stop smoking when it warms up?
Hope it's a bad head gasket sucking coolant into the cylinders or might be a cracked head. One bad thing on 99s is the coolant tank. Too small and too low. If the owner is not diligent about keeping the tank topped up, air gets sucked into the head causing hot spots eventually causing a crack usually in an inlet port. The crack closes up when warm. If in the exhaust port you'll see bubbles in the coolant.
The compressions don't look that bad. Remember this engine only as 7.2:1 compression. So readings around 150 are normal.
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- billowing white smoke, Jeremy, Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:02:05
- 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 <-- Viewing This Message
- 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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