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- From: tquinn@heartland.bradley.edu (Terry Quinn)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: RE: Water Vapor
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 22:02:54 -0600
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- > Subject: Water Vapor
- > Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- > Date: Tue Dec 22 14:22:13 1992
- >
- > White smoke comes out of the tail pipe evey time I start up
- > my car in a cold morning. I've been hearing this is the
- > vapor of water which condense at the engine over night.
- > Are there any explanation for this?
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- I had a 1984 Pontiac Trans Am that also gave off white smoke on
- startup. Eventually I found that the carburetor float bowl was
- porous, and when the engine was shut off, fuel would leak through
- and pool in the intake manifold.
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- Terry Quinn
- Germantown Hills, IL
- tquinn@heartland.bradley.edu
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