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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 06:00 PM
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At first I couldn't pass my emmisions, so I put some seafoam in the pcv system
cleaning the top end of the valves.
Also ran a fuel system cleaner in the tank, and replaced the air filter and pcv valve.
So I ended up passing emmisions, but I've noticed even after my car warms up
it still has white smoke. What could this be?

Am I still running to rich.

I have a stock sohc vtec engine with i/h/e. +msd and thats about it.
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 06:03 PM
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Default Re: white smoking out of exhaust? (russianswty)

well, if you haven't changed your oil since seafoam application, you should do that, that's a start. If you run to much Seafoam at once it can dry out the gaskets and allow leaks and inturn make your car burn oil. How much did you use?
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 06:30 PM
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about 4/10 of the bottle
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 08:22 PM
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or is this normal for a car sitting for about 4-5 months. But has been driven for the past week.
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 08:32 PM
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you passed emissions after seafoam? how many miles do you have?

I love seafoam, but im an idiot and should have waited to see whether the car burnt oil before I used it.

I recently checked my oil and I was 2.5 quarts low! luckily the oil light never came on.

Im going to check it weekly to see whats up,

my last car never passed emissions and it was a big hassle.

but seafoam carbon white smoke should only last a few minutes, not a long time. I smoked for about 5 minutes only, lots of thick white smoke but then it totally went away.

it could be that you have a bad head gasket and you may be burning some coolant, thats usually white smoke.

burnt oil is blueish smoke.
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 09:30 PM
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well I did the test where you crank the engine and watch the radiator
to see if the coolant is coming up, but nothing really. So it seems that it
passed that test.
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 11:57 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mjfan12 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you passed emissions after seafoam? how many miles do you have?

I love seafoam, but im an idiot and should have waited to see whether the car burnt oil before I used it.

I recently checked my oil and I was 2.5 quarts low! luckily the oil light never came on.

Im going to check it weekly to see whats up,

my last car never passed emissions and it was a big hassle.

but seafoam carbon white smoke should only last a few minutes, not a long time. I smoked for about 5 minutes only, lots of thick white smoke but then it totally went away.

it could be that you have a bad head gasket and you may be burning some coolant, thats usually white smoke.

burnt oil is blueish smoke.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Also, white smoke means you have a water leak so inspect your pump if you can get to it.
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 12:29 AM
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Default Re: white smoking out of exhaust? (russianswty)

I would consider you are burning your head gasket which is causing oil burning. Also check how much oil you poured into your motor. I seen cars that dump their motors with too much oil, and they run slow and smog up the streets.
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