white smoke from exhaust. Turbo or head gasket??
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Re: white smoke from exhaust. Turbo or head gasket?? (torqueless)
white smoke is usually coolant.
Check your coolant and see if it's discolored, same with the oil. sounds like a headgasket.
is it overheating?
Check your coolant and see if it's discolored, same with the oil. sounds like a headgasket.
is it overheating?
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Re: white smoke from exhaust. Turbo or head gasket?? (torqueless)
check your charge pipes to see if they have oil in them. also, if your not running an oil restrictor on your turbo than that might be a reason its blowing white smoke.
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Re: white smoke from exhaust. Turbo or head gasket?? (torqueless)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by torqueless »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ok thanks 
How do you tell when its the turbo going out??</TD></TR></TABLE>
check it for shaft play, it will wobble back/forth, or not at all, lol.
How do you tell when its the turbo going out??</TD></TR></TABLE>check it for shaft play, it will wobble back/forth, or not at all, lol.
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Turbo smoke is usually black, collant smoke white. Is your turbo both oil and water cooled or just oil? If it is just oil, I would perform a compression test and see if you have a leaky cylinder. If it is both, I would pop off the intake and see if you have shaft play which may be allowing coolant to leak into that side of things or once again, compression test to see if you have a dead HG.
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