What Is Causing White Smoke Pluming From Exhaust?

if it didn't happen before you did that it's probably just excess fuel not burning completely coming out in the exhaust run if for a little bit and see if it clears up listening for unusual noises the whole time.

unburned gas will produce white smoke. excessive gas burning produces black smoke, oil burning produces bluish smoke and coolant will also produce white smoke. seeing as he didn't have the problem before and he just did work to the injectors and got excess fuel in the ports it did not burn it all off when he started the car. so disregard all this stuff about head gaskets and everything else unless you run your car for a while and it still does it then you may want to check that.

You did not mention anything about the air temperature before you got into the car. Was it nippy, frosty, or hotter than the place "downstairs"? If you can see your breath, you are going to see the car"s breath. This is condensation from moisture inside the exhaust pipe/muffler. That is why exhaust systems rust out. It takes about 5 miles of driving to get all the moisture out of your exhaust. Watch other car tailpipes (it is much easier than watching your own as you drive) Some will smoke a whitish grey and some will smoke blue(oil burner), some black(choke is stuck on or diesel under load so the black is excess fuel burning in the exhaust pipe instead of the engine, and some won't show anything as the engines are warmed up long enough so that the moisture is out(but the cars are still giving off harmful CO2 and poisonous CO at the same rate as the visible smoke ones. Old car or brand new, if you burn fuel you pollute.

There are two sources of white vapour coming out the tailpipe:

-- Water vapour (normal -- goes away after warmup)

-- Coolant (not normal-- doesn't go away)

If you have continuous white smoke, I'd suspect the head gasket is toast.

HTH

V

could just be unburned fuel i would drive it around alittle to see if it stops. white smoke is usually water in the cylinder but some times fuel can look white coming out of the engine. if it was not doing it till you replace the oring i would bet that is what it is.

Usually white smoke is a blown head gasket.

White smoke-coolant, water

Blue Smoke-Oil

Best bet, look for a new car because it sounds like a head gasket.

if its thick white smoke check your oil its definitely oil? if the oil is ok than start the car and leave it for ten mins n c if its reducing but dont drive it if u do u might gonna blow ur engine off.if still nothing happens thank u head gaskit is gone.hope u find it helpful

that would be a good idea but dont drive it just let it run and listen for any unusual noises white smoke is normally oil or antifreeze in the cylinder but if all else fails run a compression test

Fuel would not be white smoke. Thats coolant. Smell the smoke and if it smells sweet then its coolant. Oil is a darker smoke that almost looks blue.

kba1a is correct, you have a blown head gasket. Don't drive it. Unburned gas will produce black smoke, oil will produce bluish black smoke and water will produce white "smoke" (steam).