Re: [T3] Another white smoking 72 fasty

["Martinez, Leon" <martinezl@ftscpac.navy.mil>]

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  White smoke ? The only time I have had white smoke in an engine is when 
it is newly rebuilt and stuff is burning off , usually it may take around
and hour to go clean. Usually it misses first then evens out.

I have adjustable pressure sensors and when I have made an overly rich 
adjustment , the engine would smoke black and not white. I know white 
is sometimes an indication of steam and that some fluid will drip 
out of the exhaust as water, this is not fuel. Water is a product of a 
combustion process, depending on the type or brand of fuel, engine temps,
compression etc... you will see this steam often , mostly in the morning 
when the engine is cold. Alot of cars do that.

The other way white smoke would come out of the exhaust, is when 
you have a bottle of Nitro in use but I doubt you are using that. 

Oil burning is usually white with a very light blue tint that is barely 
noticeable.

Too much gasoline burning is usually black but sometimes looks like burning 
oil , white/blue.

Maybe it is just steam ?

LEON MARTINEZ





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