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Clouds of white smoke

When starting especialy in morning or when car has been stood for a while i get clouds of white smoke which lasts for quite a while .it seems to go as engine heats up .

  • Bela64 Apr 02, 2009

    I agree the first way to fixing a car go to a professional carmechaniker but sometimes we need to break through this rule. ActuallyI'd like to ask some guidance in connection of head gasket replaceespecially in a Toyota Estima (engine 3CTE) with same white smoke problem. I hope it's only a head gasket problem. For me is very interesting 'cos sometimes start at cold without any problem and by the way after engine heated up I have no problem with.

  • Anonymous Mar 20, 2014

    Individual. 2 of the injectors are just constantly spraying petrol making clouds of white smoke and eating up petrol. What do I do. Where could I get a replacement box if that is what I would have to do?

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Dense white smoke usually indicates coolant/antifreeze getting into the combustion chambers. This can be from a "blown" head gasket or from a crack in the cylinder head or the block. In either case, this involves some major work on the engine. Replacing a head gasket is preferable cost-wise to replacing a cylinder head or the entire engine (block).

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Its normal it just a moisture in your piping which causing to smoke that way...but if the smoke still when normal driving you might check the reservoir for cloudy water instead of coolant in that case you may have a blown head gasket if you got luck but if no cylinder or head are crack..anyways do not worry about white smoke you must worry if you have black smoke

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If it's the org. engine it will has over 200,000 miles on it.
It's normal to has the valve steam seal/oil seal on the head to leak oil into the cyclinder.

The smoke you see is the motor oil drop from the seals.

It land on the top of the cyclinders and it create black smoke at start up.

The inexpensive fix is to start using high mileage oil with seal conditioner.
This will help soften the rubber seals and help reduce internal oil leak.

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Complete head service is the only method to stop this internal oil drip problem.
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