White smoke

[Max777]

Umm, is it hard to start? Mine does that... but for quite a while, like 10min or so untill it warms up. My smoke is pretty damn heavy, and since I have a coolant leak, I'm pretty shure it's a seal since there is never any puddles under the car or anything.

The way it was explained to me is that the leaking coolant seal leaks coolant into your combustion chamber, and on start-up there is white smoke. Then, as the engine warms up, the seal expands and the leak stops... this supposedly gets worse and worse as time goes by.


NOTE: My engine has 144,000 miles on it, was poorly maintenanced by the PO, has a gas smell in the oil (with like 300miles on an oil change) coolant leak, oil in coolant, does not start when engine is hot, has a terrible idle, and the clutch is slipping. I also think that the fuel filter is WAY overdue for a change.

[gerudas11]

wow see there is not coolant smell in my exhaust so I don't think its that now it could be failing but i really dont know

[RETed]

Coolant is going to smell sweet.

Gas / oil is going to smell totally different.

Check the spark plugs to see how everything is burning if you can't tell the difference between burning oil or too much fuel...


-Ted