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- From: lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Oh No! I need the doctors advice!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.165131.467@hsh.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 21:51:30 GMT
- References: <1993Jan10.233048.62609@cc.usu.edu> <1993Jan11.122915.461@hsh.com> <tv-3t!b@rpi.edu>
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- In article <tv-3t!b@rpi.edu>, kokerj@vccsouth10.its.rpi.edu (James Matthew Kokernak) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan11.122915.461@hsh.com>, lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann) writes:
- > |> radiator? Water coming out the exhaust pipe?
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > Correct me if I'm wrong, but an ideal gasoline engines exhaust should be
- > comprised of water and carbon dioxide, shouldn't it? The carbon monoxide
- > and hydrocarbons are byproducts of incomplete combustion. My point is that
- > it is normal and in fact healthy to see some water coming out of the
- > tail pipe. BTW, I agree with everything else though.
- >
- > --Jim
-
-
- I meant _serious_ amounts of liquid water - not water vapour - coming out of the
- exhaust pipe. One of the cars that had a blown head gasket had enough water
- coming out of the pipe to fill a coffee cup up in less than a minute.
-
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