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Old 09-18-2011, 02:25 PM
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Question White Smoke Coming from Shifter opening

As the title suggests I have a white smoky substance coming up from under my shifter opening. It smells kind of bad. I think i have power steering fluid leaking from somewhere. Could this be related or is this something else entirely. Any one else have a similar problem, or know what this could be?
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Old 09-18-2011, 02:47 PM
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Might be related, if the leak is splashing onto your ehaust and burning... Is it happening when the car is in motion, or idling at a light?
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Old 09-18-2011, 04:09 PM
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car is on fire... run for your life!
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Old 09-18-2011, 05:41 PM
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Is the neighbor missing any cats?
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Old 09-18-2011, 08:17 PM
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It doesnt happen at all during idle. I cleaned my IAC today to fix my idle. It was surging up to about 1500-2000 rpm and was just all over the place. It's at a steady 700-800 rpm now, which may be too low still. The car seems to want to stall when i try to move it with just the clutch. I just put on a new adjustable clutch cable and quadrant last sunday, and i couldnt move it at all with out gassing it before doing so. So, anyways, short story long, after fixing the idle to where it was steady I let it run about 10 minutes before I tried to move it, and no white smoke. After hearing it was fixed I hopped in and moved it a few yards forward and a few yards back, and immediately after doing so I saw and SMELLED it. I had to replace one of the steering arms last week as well. I thought I had to replace the whole rack and let the mustang sit for a while. I did have this smoke problem before I broke that. Pretty lost on what it is. Guessing that it may be a tranny seal of some kind but I don't know enough to call it anything other than a guess.
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Old 09-20-2011, 05:32 PM
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