White Smoke out the tail

[ghost111]

We are working on my friends 2000 I-4 Camry doing rear struts and plugs and wires. But it seems to be blowing some white smoke out the tail pipe. No water in oil or oil in the water. Both are clean. Compression seems OK. What else could produce the white smoke???????????????

[Mister_Perkins]

Originally Posted by ghost111

We are working on my friends 2000 I-4 Camry doing rear struts and plugs and wires. But it seems to be blowing some white smoke out the tail pipe. No water in oil or oil in the water. Both are clean. Compression seems OK. What else could produce the white smoke???????????????

If the white smoke doesn't smell sweet, and your not loosing coolant (Radiator and Overflow are completely full) It's probably just condensation

[carsrus]

Probably just some steam burning off.

Just tell him to monitor the oil and coolant level. It could be a slight oil burn, its hard to differentiate between smoke colors sometimes.

[ghost111]

thanks guys. how about that water thingie connected to the throttle body. does that ever leak into the system?

[BamZipPow]

Originally Posted by ghost111

thanks guys. how about that water thingie connected to the throttle body. does that ever leak into the system?

Unless someone's been pounding on the IAC valve...the only way it could leak if someone took it off and sprayed some solvent on the rubber gasket and then tried to reinstall the old gasket and it ends up gitting pinched.

But outside of that...no.