Yep, If he is not using coolant then I'm going to bet that after another fill up it is going to clean up and burn as it should.

 

Nope I was mistaken, You are right, looks like he meant a can of sea foam, I read it wrong. But if it had water in it already it would do the same thing.

 

Agreed on both counts.

 

Just sea foam doing what it is supposed to do. lol

 

I think we need to hear form JCSXJ4.0 and what see if he fixed it or if the problem has gone away or if he knows why it's smoking .

 

seafoam has pulled my bacon outta the fire more than once. the handful of times mine started sputtering, i just waited 'til it got down to 1/4 of a tank & put in seafoam & filled it up. the sputtering stopped.

 

I hope he does come back with an update!

 

I was always told growing up that an engine running lean will blow white smoke. This topic is very highly debated though. I have witnessed it myself on motorcycles and other small engine powered vehicles.

I have also seen an engine that is not completely burning fuel for one reason or another will blow unburned fuel out the exhaust and it's white. Not sure if it's a mist cloud of unburned fuel or the result of unburned fuel hitting the hot exhaust. It most definitely has a strong gas odor, not the sweet odor of burning coolant.

 

There is a difference between white smoke and steam. For a long time white smoke almost always meant that a vacuum solenoid on an automatic trans had a bad diaphragm and it was sucking trans fluid into the intake.

Anybody old enough to remember that? Lol

 

That's funny, a few years ago a guy that lived down the street from me had an early 90s model Ford Ranger that had that problem. He said the shop told him it was a bad transmission solenoid causing it to smoke, I thought that was crazy, how can a solenoid in the transmission make the engine smoke? But now that makes sense.

 

Lol... Yep, before electronic transmissions and throttle cable control that is how they controlled the shift timing, and most were adjustable. There was a linkage rod or cable to the throttle, but it was to drop it down into 2nd from 3rd for passing.

 

We still haven't heard from JCSXJ4.0 , I'd like to know if he still has the problem .

 

Man I hate these open ended question threads like this. We need to know if we were wrong just as much as if we were right and able to help or not. Without closure it was all wasted time and effort and no one learned a damned thing from it. Too many of these and it makes you not even want to try to help.

 

Very true. There was some good thought going on here, but without a conclusion it's basically worthless.

 

If I thought he had a phone alert to this thread turned on I would ping it about twenty times right now. lol