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The white smoke is most likely oil burning. Make sure all of your nuts where your exhaust mounts to the head are tight. erick the daddy --- Mike Wodkowski <wodkowski@mac.com> wrote: > OK, so last week I set my valves, .004 intakes, .006 > exhaust. > I noticed Russ said he set his at a loose .004 and a > tight .006 > That was after I did mine, which were set to a tight > .004 and a tight .006 > I haven't had a chance to loosen the intakes yet. > > This week I noticed two things: > > 1) When I start the car, I get big puff of white > exhaust. Just as it > starts. It doesn't continue. > > 2) I can really hear the exhaust now. > > I checked the exhaust leak I know I have down by my > right heat exchanger, > and it's there alright. I can't tell if the > temporary fix has gotten worse. > But it sounds alot louder. I thik this is > coincidental to the valve setting. > > But what of the white exhaust? Smells carbon-y, but > isn't black. And isn't > blue. > -- > Mike Wodkowski > 72 SQBK > Brooklyn > wodkowski@mac.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Search old messages on the Web! Visit > http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com