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well, i have a coolant leak that produced a great deal of white smoke out the tail pipe, but I have also noticed this smoke inside the intake manifold (took off the pipe and looked inside).

Does the 1990 Legacy have Internal egr? Just asking this since I seem to be getting exhaust gasses in my intake manifold :S

Did you recently replace the oxygen sensor with a universal, cut-n-splice unit? No, the oxygen sensor is the one that has always been in there. Besides, I'm fairly sure this is a coolant leak problem. There are bubbles in the coolant when the car is running, lots of white smoke for about 15 min, en...

No there is way too much smoke for it to be a bit of water stuck in the CAT that and it is having quite a lot of trouble starting. I also preformed another test to help narrow it down: I detached the exhaust manifold, cranked it over, and checked which cylinder the smoke is coming from. Apparently t...

Well, this is an update for anyone that cares to read it. I started seeing bubbles in the coolant, that combined with the smoke I guessed there was a coolant leak into the combustion chamber. So, after much labor I took the engine out and replaced the head gaskets after i noted some possible leakage...

Ok, so hopefully this will help narrow it down. I did a test to try and figure out which cylinder it was smoking out of. I started the engine for a few seconds, just so it smoked, then I turned it off and pulled the spark plugs to look for smoke. First two tries at this smoke came out of the left cy...

Herm99 wrote:
Get a CEL yet??

No, not yet.

evolutionmovement wrote:
Looks like coolant to me.

Ok, well how can it be a head gasket if it passed a compression test? Also, if it is a small leak, how long would i have to run the car to notice the coolant level going down appreciably?

So, I have a 1990 Subaru Legacy. It has problems starting when it has sat around for a day or two. When I try and start it the engine stalls when I let it idle and it blows a bunch of gray smoke. After I warm it up for a while it now starts perfectly, like nothing was wrong. These are the following ...

So, I checked the fuses again....lo and be hold a 30 amp has been burnt out.......replaced it and it started!..thanks guys!

I have a 1990 Legacy and I am having some trouble getting it started. The problem first arose when I was trying to get my ABS error codes via some sketchy information on the intertubes. There was some smoke, so I defiantly shorted something out. Now, I am not getting any spark. In a flash of stupidi...