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Originally posted by 46Tbird:
Sounds like a blown head gasket to me. Generally, blue smoke=oil, black=too rich (fuel), and white=coolant.
Good luck fixing it. 3.8s are notorious for blowing head gaskets.
Danny
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It was not the head gasket at all. It was running supppper rich because the njectors were firing out of sequence. The reason for that is because when I bought the car the previous owner had started to change head gaskets and ran out of time to finish it, Turned out he had not needed to change both. Only the driver side was starting to seep. I went ahead and changed both. Because some one else had started to fix it I didn't take all of it aprt. When I put it back together I inadvertently had the injector harness flipped. And that made them was out of time with the rest of the motor.
On a side note. I have had lots of 3.8s including a 1990 Supercoupe and have never had one blow a head gasket. I DO make sure to keep the cooling system up to par though. As anyone should when the have aluminum heads on an iron block.
I know others have had that problem and a lot of the 3.8s I have seen have blown the head gaskets because of owner neglect or ignorance. The do blow them easier then an all iron engine and not everyone keeps that in mind.
Just my experiance.
Thanks for the reply!