Help! White smoke from the exhaust?!?!?
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Originally Posted by PeterK
No, burning oil will produce whitish smoke with a district blue hue. Coolant will produce snow-white smoke.
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Originally Posted by DimNSlow
Good point. My CEL light was on nice and red when the oil debacle happened
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If smoke after a hard run...
It's most likely extra oil (in head?) that's getting burnt away. It happened to me when I went to the track and before the third or fourth run of the day. It was sitting in the paddock area for about an hour after a previous session, and when it was time to go back for the next run, I started the engine, and a ton of smoke came out. Nothing wrong, no problems, no engine fault codes. It happens more if oil is overfilled.
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Time to replace my seperator?
I'm occasionally getting clouds of whiteish smoke from the engine of my 02 996 with 36k miles on it at startup. I do mean clouds - enough to fill several bays of a parking garage. In addition to this I've got a feeling the engine is occasionally missing or loosing a little power at lower revs. Having said that, it isn't using an excessive amount of oil.
If I remove the oil filler cap at idle, there is a little vacuum and the engine stumbles for a while.
I think this is the oil seperator problem, but is there anything else I should be considering?
My 996 is a manual, would it still help to drop the gearbox, or can this realistically be done easier without doing so. I've also got some clutch judder, possibly a slightly warped flywheel - not enough to be worth fixing by itself, but if the gearbox needs to come out anyway....
If I remove the oil filler cap at idle, there is a little vacuum and the engine stumbles for a while.
I think this is the oil seperator problem, but is there anything else I should be considering?
My 996 is a manual, would it still help to drop the gearbox, or can this realistically be done easier without doing so. I've also got some clutch judder, possibly a slightly warped flywheel - not enough to be worth fixing by itself, but if the gearbox needs to come out anyway....
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I'm occasionally getting clouds of whiteish smoke from the engine of my 02 996 with 36k miles on it at startup. I do mean clouds - enough to fill several bays of a parking garage. In addition to this I've got a feeling the engine is occasionally missing or loosing a little power at lower revs. Having said that, it isn't using an excessive amount of oil.
If I remove the oil filler cap at idle, there is a little vacuum and the engine stumbles for a while.
I think this is the oil seperator problem, but is there anything else I should be considering?
My 996 is a manual, would it still help to drop the gearbox, or can this realistically be done easier without doing so. I've also got some clutch judder, possibly a slightly warped flywheel - not enough to be worth fixing by itself, but if the gearbox needs to come out anyway....
If I remove the oil filler cap at idle, there is a little vacuum and the engine stumbles for a while.
I think this is the oil seperator problem, but is there anything else I should be considering?
My 996 is a manual, would it still help to drop the gearbox, or can this realistically be done easier without doing so. I've also got some clutch judder, possibly a slightly warped flywheel - not enough to be worth fixing by itself, but if the gearbox needs to come out anyway....
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