GMC5.3

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Smoke was coming from my exhaust manifolds on both sides, so i decided to pull the driver side manifold. Let me know if you think this could be the reason why?

bowtienut

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No, I don't see anything odd there.
Not uncommon to see a gasket hanging into the gaspath like that; nothing that would cause smoke.

SS RRR

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What kind of smoke? Nothing looks wrong with that gasket. In fact, it looks totally reusable.

BLSolutions

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Did you just install new headers? If so, they are going to smoke a little depending on what kind of coating they have. It will go away after a few cycles but for reference, my stainless headers had oil residue from the manufacturer which had to burn off. Just throwing that out there because the gasket looks good.

whytryz28

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If you recently worked on you car and kept touching the headers they will smoke from that.

jimwantsLs1

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i agree, any oil or grease residue left on the header will heat up and burn off, did it have a smell to it?

355z28

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Those gaskets look new, if you just worked on it an touched them or anything it will smoke for several minutes pretty bad until its all burnt off. usually 5-10 minutes depending whats on them

FAD2BLK93

Is your valve cover leaking?