nellis003
Member
Hi all,
I just bought my first C4 - I've had C3s before but found a 1984 Crossfire Corvette project and thought I'd try to get it running.
The car sat for six years before I bought it, and when I got it started there was a lot of white smoke coming out the tailpipe. I figured it was a bad head gasket, because the smoke looked like coolant smoke. But when I did a compression test, I got around 140 in each cylinder. Most of the sparkplugs were wet, black, and smelled like gas.
So I removed the crossfire setup, and found pools of gas sitting in the intake. Raw gas is getting in there somehow.
My questions are:
Is there a way to diagnose where the leak is? I'm not sure if I should try replacing the seals on the throttle bodies or the injectors themselves.
Could this be causing the white smoke, or is that a separate issue?
Thanks for any input.
Nick
I just bought my first C4 - I've had C3s before but found a 1984 Crossfire Corvette project and thought I'd try to get it running.
The car sat for six years before I bought it, and when I got it started there was a lot of white smoke coming out the tailpipe. I figured it was a bad head gasket, because the smoke looked like coolant smoke. But when I did a compression test, I got around 140 in each cylinder. Most of the sparkplugs were wet, black, and smelled like gas.
So I removed the crossfire setup, and found pools of gas sitting in the intake. Raw gas is getting in there somehow.
My questions are:
Is there a way to diagnose where the leak is? I'm not sure if I should try replacing the seals on the throttle bodies or the injectors themselves.
Could this be causing the white smoke, or is that a separate issue?
Thanks for any input.
Nick