My 96 Disco starts slow then has whit...

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Author Message   Mark Hallaway (Markymark) New Member Username: Markymark Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 06:28 pm:    My 96 Disco takes some time to start. When it does start i get white smoke that smells like fuel. Someone told me I have leaky injectors? Is that true. Or is it something else. Plz Help THx.   Greg French (Gregfrench) Member Username: Gregfrench Post Number: 199 Registered: 11-2002 Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:36 pm:    Sounds like they were right. Mine does it too. I've changed 3 of them. Still haven't found the right one. At least it is an easy job   Mark Hallaway (Markymark) New Member Username: Markymark Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 10:44 pm:    thx Greg, Anyone else find this to be the result of a leaky injector? Mark   Gabriel Guay (Gearhead) New Member Username: Gearhead Post Number: 34 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 11:31 pm:    Don't know about you guys but, I grew up with the popular notion that blue smoke = oil Black smoke = fuel white smoke = water I would think a compresion test when the motor is cold may indicate a head gasket or intake gasket starting to leak. If you get a dribble of coolent in one or more cyl from sitting. when you start it will dilute the fuel and blow the coolant and fuel out the tail pipe as white smoke. As soon as there is heat, all that aluminium expands and things get tight again. just a thought. What do you think. Gabe   Greg Hirst (Gregh) Member Username: Gregh Post Number: 70 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 01:02 am:    Uh, sounds like normal start-up to me. Cold start sends extra fuel so gas smell and "white smoke" is condensation in exhaust (i.e. steamy exhaust) which is gone when hot, right? Does it do this in summer when warm (depending on where you live)?   Greg French (Gregfrench) Member Username: Gregfrench Post Number: 201 Registered: 11-2002 Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 10:11 am:    Mine does it all year long. It is actually a little better in the winter. What is happening (so I have been told) is that the injector is leaking while it is parked. This causes it to be flooded, and exhibits the same behaviou as if it were a carburated vehicle that you pumped the gas for too long before it cranked.   Mark Hallaway (Markymark) New Member Username: Markymark Post Number: 8 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 03:07 pm:    yes I live in sunny southern california. It smokes on start up no matter the temprature it seems. There is deffinatly a problem here. I know it sounds normal to alot of people who have discos, but it takes to long to start my car. Lack of fuel? Lack of something. I dont know.