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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 06:05 PM
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help white smoke pouring out of heads

whenever i try to start my car and when i start my car the engine starts pouring white smoke out of the heads, help plz i have no idea what it could be all new gaskets and rings!!!
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 06:08 PM
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Re: help white smoke pouring out of heads

white smoke = coolant in cylinders = cracked head or bad head gaskets or bad intake gasket
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 06:14 PM
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Re: help white smoke pouring out of heads

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whenever i try to start my car and when i start my car the engine starts pouring white smoke out of the heads, help plz i have no idea what it could be all new gaskets and rings!!!

exactly where from out of the heads?
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 06:24 PM
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Re: help white smoke pouring out of heads

its coming out of the heads like, every friggin hole, its horrible
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 06:32 PM
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Re: help white smoke pouring out of heads

There are no exposed holes on a cylinder head. They're all plugged or covered with something. Bottom line is you're burning coolant if it's white.
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 06:36 PM
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Re: help white smoke pouring out of heads

i think its white im unsure i think its blowby though could that be a head gasket,
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 07:09 PM
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Re: help white smoke pouring out of heads

When you say that it has al new gaskets, are you telling me that the head gaskets were replaced shortly before this problem came about? If so yank the heads and have them mag'ed by the local engine reduilder and make sure they aren't cracked. If they are good, redo the gasket job and be extra careful. As was mentioned before, if the heads are correctly installed, white smoke will only come from the exhaust pipes or , if serious issues exist, the carburator. The heads should be 100% sealed at the intake manifold and the ehaust manifolds.
Bottom line again, coolant is getting into your cylinders and is being burn off. There are only a limited number of ways this could happen. cracked head, bad head gasket, bad intake manifold gasket, cracked block.

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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 08:37 PM
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Re: help white smoke pouring out of heads

Have you just worked on it? When you put an engine together it normally will smoke all over from fingerprints, solvents, oils, fresh paint, etc.
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 09:45 PM
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Re: help white smoke pouring out of heads

x2
When I put my exhaust all back together it smoked for a good 5 or 10 minutes as the pipes heated up and burned off the oil i smudged on them.
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 10:01 PM
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just wanted to say thanks to every one who replied, im going to let it run for a while tommorrow see if it clears anything up because i just built the whole motor from ground up so maybe ill get lucky
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