[s-cars] smokey Q

[Lee Levitt]

Paul,

Symptoms were very similar to mine when my turbo went.

Lee 

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> pkrasusky at ups.com
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 3:41 PM
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> Subject: [s-cars] smokey Q
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> 
> Question for you gents for a non-lister local friend of mine:
> 
> His '95.5 mit maybe 145k omits a clearish whitish smoke upon start up.
> Not immediately, not until a few seconds / minute when it 
> gets warmish.
> Doesn't always do it, and it's not very thick, but pretty 
> constant once it starts.  Seems mostly on the cool misty 
> days.  It really looks like condensation burning off from 
> inside the pipes.  Does have a *very* slight bluish hue.  
> Seems to do it after having sat for like a few hours he says. 
>  No traceable odor.  Once it warms up or he drives it he says 
> it's gone.
> 
> His head gasket was done previously, and he says car doesn't 
> use coolant but uses the "typical" quart per thousand of Mobil 1.
> 
> I was guessing maybe valve seals or turbo seals, for lack of 
> better answer.  But, it's not really that blue, at all.  And 
> it doesn't do it upon immediate start up, nor under accel.  
> Sort of sounds like same story Smokey Edweirdo Walsh told her 
> years back.  
> 
> Again, really looked like condensation to me, but, it's odd 
> that the 'smoke' will sit in the air upon shut off and not 
> merely evaporate immediately.
> 
> Thoughts?  TIA.
> 
> -Paul
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