Blue Smoke and Loss of Power

Blue Smoke and Loss of Power

08-06-2001, 12:35 AM

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swamp rat

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Blue Smoke and Loss of Power

Coming to work this afternoon, I had a sudden loss of power and several large puffs of blue smoke from the exhaust. Shortly afterward, the power came back up and the smoke dissipated. As an aside, it seems like my turbo has been a bit slow to spool up lately, and cold starting is somewhat hard with a slight haze of blue smoke. Since I haven't gotten around to the gauges yet (still on my early X-mas gift list to myself), would anyone care to speculate as to what the cause might be? My suspicion is I may have lost the seal between a rubber boot/clamp somewhere between the turbo and intake. Does this sound probable to you guys?

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Last edited by swamp rat; 08-06-2001 at 12:38 AM..

get those gauges gauges gauges

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