DSMTyson
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- Nov 9, 2010
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Lake Charles,
Louisiana
I'll try to describe this as best I can.
When I first start my car up in the morning, after about 1 minute of runtime I can start to see very vague puffs of WHITE smoke coming out of the exhaust and it increasingly get worse until it is more of a transparent white fog. But it then goes away after about a minute. But then comes back and goes away again.
After it warms up to operating temperature and I start driving the smoke will intermittently come and go for the first minute of driving, and then it will completely clear up. It was eating a little bit of coolant before this started happening, and since it has started to smoke randomly it has stopped eating coolant....Which has me really confused..
I was sure it was a blown headgasket, so I did a compression test because i've seen blown headgaskets will usually cause a drop in compression in 1 or 2 cylinders.
I did a hot compression test.
Comperssion was Cyl. 1: 144psi, Cyl 2: 137psi, Cyl. 3: 141 psi, Cyl. 4: 150psi.
Seems normal to me.
Can anyone verify that what I am experiencing is a blown headgasket? Or could it be something else?
When I first start my car up in the morning, after about 1 minute of runtime I can start to see very vague puffs of WHITE smoke coming out of the exhaust and it increasingly get worse until it is more of a transparent white fog. But it then goes away after about a minute. But then comes back and goes away again.
After it warms up to operating temperature and I start driving the smoke will intermittently come and go for the first minute of driving, and then it will completely clear up. It was eating a little bit of coolant before this started happening, and since it has started to smoke randomly it has stopped eating coolant....Which has me really confused..
I was sure it was a blown headgasket, so I did a compression test because i've seen blown headgaskets will usually cause a drop in compression in 1 or 2 cylinders.
I did a hot compression test.
Comperssion was Cyl. 1: 144psi, Cyl 2: 137psi, Cyl. 3: 141 psi, Cyl. 4: 150psi.
Seems normal to me.
Can anyone verify that what I am experiencing is a blown headgasket? Or could it be something else?