I did the fuel injection cleaning at Jiffy lube. After the tech disconnected the IV bottle and connected back the hoses, He revved the engine at that moment white smoke came out of the block. It stopped after a couple of seconds. No smoke afterwards. The tech had no idea too. What can that be?

I just started it again after typing the first paragraph and no smoke at all. Do I have to worry about this? Can anyone pinpoint a possible answer to this?

 

The exhaust gasket is either failing or the cleaner soaked into the gasket and burned off. It happens to me when i sea foam my car. I do believe i need to replace mine though as I can smell exhaust fums up front.

 

Thats your problem. Jiffy Lube has a bunch of ase certified college drop outs. At least the juffy lube in my area. Sorry to those of you that are educated and work at jiffy lube.

I'm fairly certain that honda doesnt recommend running any type of fuel system cleaner.

If it doesnt happen again dont worry about it.

 

You mean headgasket right?

 

No he means exhaust gasket. Between the exhaust manifold and the head. Maybe better known as the exhaust manifold gasket.

 

Its the extra cleaner that you seen,and the exhaust gasket is aluminum so there's no possible way it would soaked the cleaner. And yes,Honda dose the same fuel cleaning as JL but might use a different stuff,but its not going to hurt the car. JL has one of the best certified workers working there,it just might be the shop where you live,but every JL I've been to have all there workers ASC certified,trying to get a job is like looking for a needle in a haystack. And how can they be dropouts and be ASC certified?

 

JL? What that? or what does that stand for?

 

Jiffy lube for short..lol

 

ahh I see. Hey do you think I should replace it? Its the original. It mates to the aftermarket header.

 

Unless you have an exhaust leak,why replace it? It wont hurt,but why fix something that's not bad? Just my .002

 

scratch that last post

 

on a positive note. I don't know if its me but doing a fuel injection clean made the car respond quicker. The car felt like the horsepower was restored.

 

I didn't mean that it would actually absorb into the gasket it self but if there are pockets or cracks in the gasket it will leak out. Your exhaust manifold gasket is more then likely leaking. You cant see it normally because exhaust gas for the most part is not visible, the excess smoke made from the cleaner would be visible.

 

That would be possible,look around the manifold and see if you see black carbon marks on the head,if it wore to leak this would be the thing to look for. But i think he is fine,and it was more then likely the pipe twisting on rev. You know the A pipe with the spring bolts?

 

I do believe he said smoke came out of the block. If it was the head gasket there would be some serious problems, the only other likely place for smoke to come out would be the exhaust manifold gasket.

 

You know what Kyle, I do see just a little black carbon marks just slightly around the outline of the header. Its visible on the head not the header.

Something to fix soon? If it is the manifold gasket, It looks like something I can tackle.


Also I understand what you saying about the spring bolts on the pipe. Anyways I'm not going to worry about it.

 

Yeah i would replace it then or its going to get worse after time.