brown smoke???
01-02-2007, 05:07 PM
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brown smoke???
just got the stang back from the body shop the other day and today i was out showing the streets a little lovin'.. my mom turned on the road be hind me as i was getting on it and she said there was brown smoke that shot out the exhaust right when i got on it. so to verify this i had my dad drive it and get on it a few times while i followed and sure thing right when you hit the gas brown smoke comes out... the car has been sitting since august and the shop only started it long enough to move it around, so i was thinking that it was just some carbon build up that the cars trying to get rid of.
anyone have any better idea of what it could be? had to take the car back to the shop (they messed a few things up) so when i get it back next month i was thinking about some sea foam, is there anything that sea foam can hurt?
anyone have any better idea of what it could be? had to take the car back to the shop (they messed a few things up) so when i get it back next month i was thinking about some sea foam, is there anything that sea foam can hurt?
01-02-2007, 05:15 PM
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RE: brown smoke???
If it has been sitting awhile, youcould have some buildup in there. Probably have some other things I would check out too just to keep it running nice... Get rid of the old gas, old oil, let it warm up to burn off some buildup, etc.
As far as seafoam, it can't realyl damage anything that isn;'t already broken. A good example is sparkplugs. Sometimes the the plugs can be so shot that the carbon is the only thing actually allowing it to spark. If you burn that off, the plug will no longer fire. But in that situation, you needed a new plug anyway, you just didn't know it before.
As far as seafoam, it can't realyl damage anything that isn;'t already broken. A good example is sparkplugs. Sometimes the the plugs can be so shot that the carbon is the only thing actually allowing it to spark. If you burn that off, the plug will no longer fire. But in that situation, you needed a new plug anyway, you just didn't know it before.
01-02-2007, 05:15 PM
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RE: brown smoke???
well ittook less than a month for them to do the work (car was a side job for them) the rest was them waiting on me to finish paying them ( money is real tight)
01-02-2007, 05:20 PM
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RE: brown smoke???
car had about 1 gallon of gas when it went there so i put a few in it so the old gas is long gone...and i'll change the oil after the seafoam since your suppose to change it after anyway (i think) and the car was plenty warm and i'll prolly have some fun and blow all that buld up out and hope thats all it needs, plugs are only about6 months old and it sat for 5 of the months
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If it has been sitting awhile, youcould have some buildup in there. Probably have some other things I would check out too just to keep it running nice... Get rid of the old gas, old oil, let it warm up to burn off some buildup, etc.
As far as seafoam, it can't realyl damage anything that isn;'t already broken. A good example is sparkplugs. Sometimes the the plugs can be so shot that the carbon is the only thing actually allowing it to spark. If you burn that off, the plug will no longer fire. But in that situation, you needed a new plug anyway, you just didn't know it before.
If it has been sitting awhile, youcould have some buildup in there. Probably have some other things I would check out too just to keep it running nice... Get rid of the old gas, old oil, let it warm up to burn off some buildup, etc.
As far as seafoam, it can't realyl damage anything that isn;'t already broken. A good example is sparkplugs. Sometimes the the plugs can be so shot that the carbon is the only thing actually allowing it to spark. If you burn that off, the plug will no longer fire. But in that situation, you needed a new plug anyway, you just didn't know it before.
01-02-2007, 09:16 PM
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RE: brown smoke???
ORIGINAL: samseed101
If it has been sitting awhile, youcould have some buildup in there. Probably have some other things I would check out too just to keep it running nice... Get rid of the old gas, old oil, let it warm up to burn off some buildup, etc.
As far as seafoam, it can't realyl damage anything that isn;'t already broken. A good example is sparkplugs. Sometimes the the plugs can be so shot that the carbon is the only thing actually allowing it to spark. If you burn that off, the plug will no longer fire. But in that situation, you needed a new plug anyway, you just didn't know it before.
If it has been sitting awhile, youcould have some buildup in there. Probably have some other things I would check out too just to keep it running nice... Get rid of the old gas, old oil, let it warm up to burn off some buildup, etc.
As far as seafoam, it can't realyl damage anything that isn;'t already broken. A good example is sparkplugs. Sometimes the the plugs can be so shot that the carbon is the only thing actually allowing it to spark. If you burn that off, the plug will no longer fire. But in that situation, you needed a new plug anyway, you just didn't know it before.
01-02-2007, 09:20 PM
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RE: brown smoke???
the ford dealership has had my car for 4 months, not because i cant pay it off, but because their taking their sweet time, i stop in about every day to keep on their asses, and its just going into paint this week. wonder if my car will smoke brown when its done.
01-03-2007, 01:00 AM
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RE: brown smoke???
it's only when i first romp on it, kinda like some built motors blow black (rich) when they load the motor on the line and then launch the car
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the ford dealership has had my car for 4 months, not because i cant pay it off, but because their taking their sweet time, i stop in about every day to keep on their asses, and its just going into paint this week. wonder if my car will smoke brown when its done.
the ford dealership has had my car for 4 months, not because i cant pay it off, but because their taking their sweet time, i stop in about every day to keep on their asses, and its just going into paint this week. wonder if my car will smoke brown when its done.
