white smoke coming from turbo(midsection)...

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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 06:45 PM
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2 weeks ago my car was burning coolent...there was white smoke coming from the muffler...i opened it up a week ago and found out that there was coolent in my intake manifold...it had residue on the bottom of the plenum and in the runners...the only thing i could think of was the throttle gasket got bad, so i replaced it...i drove it for a week running good with no smoke at all until today...i saw some white smoke coming from the hood and found out white smoke was coming from the midsection of the turbo...a little smoke from the muffler also...seems like i mite be burning coolent again...will it smoke from the turbo if im burning coolent?...is their any other way coolent can get into the IM?...im using a skunk2 manifold.

help me out please its driving me crazy
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 07:11 PM
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is this a water cooled turbo?
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 07:51 PM
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no its not....just oil...turbonetics t3/t04e 54 trim
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 09:58 PM
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it could be the turbo seals...
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Old Oct 4, 2005 | 09:47 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AznMike &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it could be the turbo seals...</TD></TR></TABLE>

do u mean that if the seals are no good, then there is exhaust leak at the turbo?...since im burning coolent, white smoke is coming out of the exhaust, so that causes it to come out of the turbo since seals are bad?...somebody help me out
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