white smoke!!!
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Car: 91 Formula, 79 Trans Am, 72 LeMans
Engine: 305 TPI, 6.6, 350 Pontiac
Transmission: T5, 3 speed, TH350
white smoke!!!
I was told that this is water or coolant leaking into the engine? How do i go about stopping this? And the cheapest way? Is this harming the car also?? thanks
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From: Pekin, IL
Car: 91 Formula, 79 Trans Am, 72 LeMans
Engine: 305 TPI, 6.6, 350 Pontiac
Transmission: T5, 3 speed, TH350
Is that what i have to fix is the head gaskets? is that how the fluid is leaking in? thanks
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Car: 91 Formula, 79 Trans Am, 72 LeMans
Engine: 305 TPI, 6.6, 350 Pontiac
Transmission: T5, 3 speed, TH350
alright, thanks alot man. its gonna be a pain in the *** but if it helps...
89,
The Roadhead is probably right, but some other possibilities are a bad intake gasket near the coolant crossovers, a cracked head, cracked sleeve, or cracked TPI throttle body (water heated). Some older cars had failures of TVS sensors that would allow coolant through the vacuum lines and into the intake and chambers.
Start investigating before you start replacing.
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The Roadhead is probably right, but some other possibilities are a bad intake gasket near the coolant crossovers, a cracked head, cracked sleeve, or cracked TPI throttle body (water heated). Some older cars had failures of TVS sensors that would allow coolant through the vacuum lines and into the intake and chambers.
Start investigating before you start replacing.
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Transmission: T5, 3 speed, TH350
don't know if this makes any differance or not, but it's carbed, and the ehaust is not hooked up.
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From: Pekin, IL
Car: 91 Formula, 79 Trans Am, 72 LeMans
Engine: 305 TPI, 6.6, 350 Pontiac
Transmission: T5, 3 speed, TH350
one more thing, what is the easiest way to see which thing is bad? is there some sort of way of testing it?
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