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usually I cruise the boards in silence pickin up tips and stuff...that's when u can tell me and my baby are getting along....but every once in a while "Markeeta" starts actin up! lord! I love her but she has a knack for makin that vein in my forehead pop up. Ok what makes a car start smoking out of the exhaust heavier i t started this week...just more than usual and for a longer period of time and I can't figure why I asked around but didn't get anything other than speculations all over the place. my baby is comin down with something anybody got anything ?
 
ok....

well the smoke is white...looks like to me its not blue or gray...seafoam u say? ok gotta look into that...man u guys ate my lifeline I always get good advice with u guys thanks
 
ok....

well no its just coming out a lot more itz colder out but wouldnt the exhaust be the same regardless?...
 
More vapor from the exhaust could just be moisture in the muffler evaporating. It would be easier to see in cold weather.

If it's actual smoke that's visible, then I'd check my spark plugs.


How smoothly is the engine running?
Is it overheating?
 
yeah she's ok

to go back to the seafoam ...that was a good look k dbl, thanks just grabbed a couple of those...I will be addressing those spark plugs tomorrow and she's runnin fine...idlin' right shiftin good...this guy at my job was telling me about putting a cold air intake on...he's got a cobra mustang or is it a GT..idonno its loud and rediculously fast that's all I know anyway he was saying it might do markeeta some good...anybody care to cosign or dispute that?
 
I would use anti-seize. Anti-seize will have an effect on the torque reading, so be damn sure not to overtorque them. It seems to me that anti-seize would help protect the threads next time you pull the plugs.
 
It's been my experience that antiseeze seems to help the odds of the plugs pulling out of the heads... just something I have noticed from all the people who have had a plug let go.
 
Every time I used anti seize, the subsequent plug removal.. it was almost as if the plugs were GLUED in the holes. When they would loosen they would be "tight" all the way out.

Since then I've used some light oil on the plug threads, it makes for accurate torque readings and made the plugs easy to get out.

I discovered this when my first gen had oil in some of the plug wells.
Those that oil ran down the threads upon plug removal were easy to get out the next time.
So now.. on my second gen I just put a drop of 3-1 oil on the plug threads and run them into the holes.

I personally dont like the "feel" of the Antiseized plugs on removal.
Feel free to use it if it gives you some "peice of mind".

In a half a million Mark 8 miles I never had a "seized plug" but I did have one hole blow the plug out when I first got the car, and when I was still using antiseize.
I "assumed" the Antiseize made me "think" the plug was tight when it wasn't tight enough. NOt saying the antiseize CAUSED the threads to come out of the head. It was definatley the fact that I undertightened it.
 
XLRVIII said:
In a half a million Mark 8 miles I never had a "seized plug" but I did have one hole blow the plug out when I first got the car, and when I was still using antiseize.
I "assumed" the Antiseize made me "think" the plug was tight when it wasn't tight enough. NOt saying the antiseize CAUSED the threads to come out of the head. It was definatley the fact that I undertightened it.
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Hope you tightened the plugs by first getting a good bite and tighten using your fingers only with an extension until it hits a good stop and then tighten lightly with a rachet...If not?, that might be the problem
 
CobraStar_LS8 said:
Hope you tightened the plugs by first getting a good bite and tighten using your fingers only with an extension until it hits a good stop and then tighten lightly with a rachet
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you describe it as if you watched me do it.
that is exactly how I put my plugs in.
 
When I did my plugs in my Vic I used two drops of oil and torqued them to 15ftlbs... I plan to do the Mark the same way.

The oil help prevent galling of those weak aluminum threads.
 
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