Smokes and smells like a hot lawn mower
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My 1986 Ford Bronco II has excesive smoke coming out that is white in color and smells like a old running lawn mower. Any Ideas on what it could be. I have tried to clean the throttle body, and put in injector cleaner to see if that helps. There is no oil in antifreeze, and no antifreeze in the oil. And it dont go away at all.
Any help on this subject would be greatly appreaited
Any help on this subject would be greatly appreaited
The head gasket may have gone at a water jacket and could be letting coolant leak right into an exhaust port and out the tail pipe or the head it's self may have cracked with the same result.
You won't always get water in oil and oil in water, it depends on where the leak or crack is.
Start your Bronco then walk back to the tail pipe and take a sniff, if it smells like coolant it is probably one of the above scenarios.
If you drive it and you get white smoke,like on a cold winter day and it doesn't stop when the truck gets to operating temp and it's 60 F outside, that would also indicate the above.
If your coolant level drops for no apparent reason and you have white smoke, the coolant is probably leaving through the tail pipe.
Hope I'm wrong.
You won't always get water in oil and oil in water, it depends on where the leak or crack is.
Start your Bronco then walk back to the tail pipe and take a sniff, if it smells like coolant it is probably one of the above scenarios.
If you drive it and you get white smoke,like on a cold winter day and it doesn't stop when the truck gets to operating temp and it's 60 F outside, that would also indicate the above.
If your coolant level drops for no apparent reason and you have white smoke, the coolant is probably leaving through the tail pipe.
Hope I'm wrong.
There is not a coolant or sweet smell to the smoke, it smeells like a hot lawn mower that rich thick overwhelming smell. The Temp nevers goes hot, it stays normal, and has not lost any coolant. wher i live it rarely gets cold out side. she just smokes like a train. I love this truck and havent had it long. evrything else is fine with it, just this one problem i cant seem to figure out.
ty, dippi
ty, dippi
Just so you can follow my thoughts on this - I figure that youve got either a excessively rich mixture or the fuel is not being burnt. The ht leads are a step towards this. My friends vw camper used to make a fair amount of white/grey smoke and that was down to an ignition problem iirc
flooritforever said:
im sorry but i dont understand. what are ht leads?
dippi
High Tension leads. The electrical leads that go from the distributor to the spark plugs. Faulty ones can produce all sorts of strange effects.
...and modern HT leads are made of coagulated diarrhoea deliberately in order to maximise the incidence of strange faults to make you buy new sets. The old-fashioned copper ones are too reliable and therefore not profitable enough.
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