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Jun 30, 2009 | 07:26 PM

flsupraguy

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White smoke from driverside header only?

Could I have a blown hg even though there is white smoke coming from only the driverside header?

Jun 30, 2009 | 07:53 PM

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How do you know thats its only coming from the driver side? Are you running open headers or something? Either way white smoke is a good sign of burning coolant, and you usually don't blow both gaskets at the same time. But I would replace them both if thats you problem.

Jul 1, 2009 | 07:31 AM

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yes, I am running open headers. if I had a blown hg would there be whitesmoke immediately from a cold engine or only once it is warmed up? there doesn't seem to be smoke until it is warm. I did wrap the headers and believe there is brake fluid on the driverside so it could be that...... ;(

Jul 1, 2009 | 10:04 AM

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if u were burning coolant u would have white smoke from the time u turned the car on to the time u turned it off.

Jul 1, 2009 | 01:12 PM

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if u were burning coolant u would have white smoke from the time u turned the car on to the time u turned it off.

Well that does make me feel better. Hopefully it's just the header wrap soaked in brake fluid.......

lesser of two evils I suppose.

Jul 1, 2009 | 02:00 PM

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Well that does make me feel better. Hopefully it's just the header wrap soaked in brake fluid.......

lesser of two evils I suppose.

Is it coming off the header or out of the header?

Jul 1, 2009 | 05:25 PM

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Is it coming off the header or out of the header?

It appears to be coming from around the header although there did seem to be a little coming out of the header. I'm going to take the wrap off and thoroughly clean around the area to verify.