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White Smoke, So confused, a little suicidle. 850 1994

posted by  miller on  Fri Jul 1 03:19 CST 2005
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Hey Everybody.
I recently bought a 94 850 Turbo with a bad engine for an engine swap project.
I had a used engine shipped from connecticut then I installed it.

It started right up, and ran like a top, but it started to smoke white smoke really bad at idle and at higher rpms. The smoke was definitely very steamy but did not smell like antifreeze. I did drive the car for a minute and the turbo seemed to be not working, the needle only went halfway up the gauge. If I increase rpms the whole garage fills up with the white smoke.

I drained the oil and found it to be a little hazy, sort of metalic looking with tiny fine sparkles all through it.

I went to remove the sparkplugs and they all were loose, but the tips all looked the same.

I'm thinking its the headgasket, and someone did a compression check and didnt tighten down the plugs. I really don't know yet, at this point I'm about $2500 down under and I ordered the new engine several months ago (warrenty void) so a little optimism, if only ficticious would be arreciated.

Thanks for your time, any suggestions are more then welcome.






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