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    Car smokes on idle and while driving

    White smoke seems to be coming out of the exhaust when driving and slightly when idling just failed mot on it any suggestions or anyone in the derby area want to come down and have a look for me

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

    Are you losing water from the coolant system?
    Are you using oil?

    Regardless of what the answer to those 2 questions is do a compression test and go from there

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

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    Is there any white sludge in the top of the oil filler cap or on the dip stick when you remove it? Agree get the compression tester out!

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

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    plus if your burning water your tempriture guage is gonna be hitting the limiter pretty quickly

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

    Take it back to the testing station or any testing station,take the header tank cap off & ask them to put the c/o reader above it to see if it picks up a reading.

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

    I'm in Derby.......

    free saturday afternoon or a bit of sunday.....

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

    Any help would be great if we cant sort it car is at a garage between spondon and borrowash

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

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    I had the same problem and in the end after changing the head gasket three times we found out that it was a cracked cylinder head.

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

    Right took it out yesterday to see if the problem had gone after setting it up on the co2 machine and the smoke went briefly then there was a wall of smoke behind the car and it cut out.

    After towing it back to the garage we started it again and water/coolant came out the exhaust so we suspected head gasket so off came the head but the gasket was intact.

    What was not intact was a huge crack on piston 3's liner and cracks between the valve ports on the head to so new engine it is lol

    Anyone know of one for sale asap?

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

    Valve ports is normal, mine had cracks from inlet to exhaust, as long as they aren't massive & only across the top don't worry.
    Buy some new liners or P&L & job done.
    CGB sells liners on their own as well

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

    i have and engine and box for sale if all else fails bud

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

    a new engine? why? change the liner and get the head pressure tested.
    as mentioned cracks between the valves are very common and dont usually cause any probs.

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

    How much is a new liner going to cost me and where do I get it from?

    Would this explain the smoke that was coming out of the exhaust all the time?

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

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    cgbmotorsport.net

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    Re: Car smokes on idle and while driving

    Quote Originally Posted by JasonGTT View Post
    How much is a new liner going to cost me and where do I get it from?

    Would this explain the smoke that was coming out of the exhaust all the time?

    http://www.cgbmotorsport.net/piston-...ngle-705-p.asp

    Don't forget the liner seal as well...

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