[s-cars] RE: Did you fix your car?

[Walsh, Edward]

Hi Jeff, thanks for asking!  I have CC'd the list, maybe the group can
help...

To answer you question, due to an unavoidable circumstance, I missed my
appointment with the dealer... so I am still in the clouds, so to speak.

Here is what I know:

-In the 500 miles since this started, the car has not used any
coolant(perceived).
-The car *may* have used a little oil (< than a quart over 2,500 miles since
last change)
-Spark plug deposits appear normal.  Not too clean (burning coolant), not
too dark (burning oil)
-There is no coolant in the oil or vice versa.
-If I start the car in the AM, and just let it idle, the smoke/vapor will
gradually  increase, to a point, and then hold at a constant level of
output.  Out of sympathy/embarrassment for my neighbors, I stopped idling
the engine after 3-4 minutes and drove off.
-If I start the car in the AM and drive off (slowly) after a 10 second warm
up, there is little to no smoke/vapor at all.
-The car is otherwise flawless.

The vapor/smoke dissipates quickly.  Maybe after 15 feet of drift in a light
breeze.  It is white/light gray in color.  The total size of the moving
cloud is roughly the same as my car. If I hold my hand to the tailpipe, the
exhaust fumes are cool and my hand stays dry (not oily or wet).  The
smoke/vapor is almost odorless.  It does not have a sweet coolant smell, nor
a foul burnt oil smell or raw fuel.

-Any ideas of what is burning?

-I don't think its a head gasket because the car doesn't overheat, there is
no apparent mixing of coolant/oil, the plugs appear normal, the car pulls as
well as a similarly equpiied URS, no significant consumption of oil or
coolant.

-Could the turbo have blown a seal allowing traces of oil or coolant into
the intake track?  I ask specifically about the turbo because the all
started soon after I installed the MTM 1+

THANKS!

Ed



-----Original Message-----
From: Postupack, Jeff [mailto:jeff.postupack at analog.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 11:59 AM
To: Walsh, Edward; rundeep_32 at yahoo.com
Subject: Did you fix your car?



Hi Ed,

Curious to learn what you found with your car.. did you get the white smoke
resolved?
Jeff


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