Ok, so I have noticed that when my car is warming up I get a little white smoke in the exhaust. Never that much (faint) and it doesn't stay visible much more than 8" from the exhaust. Looks like wisps of steam. Smells like exhaust (w/o cats). It goes away as the car warms up though sometimes you can see little wisps if the car is allowed to idle for long. Its also spits some water droplets but only at idle and only after awhile. I assume that its due to condensation building in the exhaust due to low exhaust velocity and temp cause it doesn't do it after a long drive.
Oh and the car holds a steady temp (stock gauge) and drives fine. The coolent level hasn't dropped anything that appreciable. I do think I have a small weeping coolant leak somewhere cause I can smell coolant every now and again. But not in the exhaust and mostly when I'm under the hood.
Anyway I have had some people tell me that it may be a small head gasket leak and others tell me that it is normal for a car w/o cats and that its just water created by the combustion process.
Anyway I wanted to know what the chaneces of it being either would be. What I should check (I'm probably going to get a leak down test just to feel sure) and anything else that could be the cause.
Oh and the car holds a steady temp (stock gauge) and drives fine. The coolent level hasn't dropped anything that appreciable. I do think I have a small weeping coolant leak somewhere cause I can smell coolant every now and again. But not in the exhaust and mostly when I'm under the hood.
Anyway I have had some people tell me that it may be a small head gasket leak and others tell me that it is normal for a car w/o cats and that its just water created by the combustion process.
Anyway I wanted to know what the chaneces of it being either would be. What I should check (I'm probably going to get a leak down test just to feel sure) and anything else that could be the cause.
