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white exhaust smoke Posted by Peter [Email] (#2804) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Peter) on Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:41:43 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I bought a 1988 Saab 9000 Turbo with a blown headgasket. I put on a new headgasket, new clutch, it passed smog in California. Just around the time it passed, I noticed on occasion white exhaust smoke for a ittle while. Then the cop stops me telling me about it. Then the white smoke gets more frequent and more in volume. Now I am just afraid to drive the car. When I replaced the headgasket, I took a straight edge to the cyl head and saw no warpage. Then I had this guy at some pretty good Saab shop replace my upper engine mounts. Since the long bolt of his press tool just didn't fit on/off easily, he took a breaker bar against the body and against the cyl head at the #1 end of the head to push the whole engine up. Did he damage my cyl head, and therefore right around (I believe)that time I may have noticed the start of the white smoke problem?! The way I noticed the smoke was that I saw water/coolant evaporating around the seam of the turbo, and when engine off, some coolant drip lines down the exhaust pipe. I put just water back in (to evaporate faster) but the tailpipe smoke is bad, bad!! Q: should I tighten further the cyl head bolts? Redo the cyl head gasket and this time have the head checked and machined? Please help with some expert advice, I am going up the walls...!! Thanks!
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