O2 sensors and white smoke

Steve Baldwin steveb at kcbbs.gen.nz
Wed Feb 5 20:35:19 GMT 1997


> 
>   Hard and fast rule: black smoke is from a rich mixture, blue smoke is oil, 
>   white "smoke" is water (steam). Has your engine overheated recently? The first 
>   thing to do is very carefully determine the color of the smoke; it may be 
>   light blue. Does it behave like a real cloud of smoke (ie dissipated only by 
>   the wind) or does it wisp away quickly like steam before any wind would have 
>   dissipated it? Hope this helps.
>   

Brake fluid makes white smoke. Had a booster s**t itself at an
intersection once and suck all the brake fluid into the engine. Filled
the intersection with thick acrid white smoke. God, did it stink !

Steve.

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