I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

[JumpInTheFire.com]

i cleaned my throttle body yesterday..i had put it back together and noticed it was leaking alot of water from where the TB bolts onto the engine. so i shut the car off asap..then today i put a new TB gasket on and bolted it back up. everything put together. and now the car blows white smoke out of the exhaust.

so what did i mess up by letting the TB leak water?

the white smoke smells like coolant to me..i'm not sure though.. did coolant get into something that it wasnt suppose to?

[JumpInTheFire.com]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

i dont think its a blown head gasket.

would it help if i did the following things: flush radiator, refill coolant.. change oil..? what else could i do?

[RadRacer]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

I'd say some coolant may have leaked into the intake before you changed the gasket. Check your level, top it off, take it for a quick drive. Let it cool down and check the level again.

[Blizzard242]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

If you're a newber like me... try seafoamin it.. Maybe that could clean up a little water/antifreeze you got in there. Don't take my word for it cause I don't know what the hell I'm talkin about yet.

[JumpInTheFire.com]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

theres water in the tail pipes too

i heard bad stories of seafoam..i'll never use it.

[Meatyshells]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

as long as it's not black smoke i think your ok, just let the car run for a lil bit

[JumpInTheFire.com]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

ok i'll let it run for a lil bit.

if it messes it up worse then..i got another engine to put into it.

[Blizzard242]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

Eh I seafoamed through my brake booster, didn't get much smoke like I was hoping but I suppose thats a good thing.. But yeah no problems what so ever. How many miles do you have on your car anyways?

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

seafoam teh sh!t, yo.

I dont' know that it would help you in this time though.

I believe you could probably just run it off.

[JumpInTheFire.com]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

ran for like 10 minutes and the smoke stopped. :)

[Meatyshells]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

probably just got carb cleaner or something in the tb

[tkoforpresident]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

ran for like 10 minutes and the smoke stopped. :)

ahhaha noob =) btw, sea foam is not a problem if you do it correctly, there is a good write up on this site on how to do it.

[Tom Rs]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

cool, prob some coolant just leaked and u needed to burn it off

[Blizzard242]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

cool, prob some coolant just leaked and u needed to burn it off

Eh which is why I suggested the seafoam to hopefully clean it out. Anyways, glad to hear its better. I'm assuming you got it in there from taking the throttle body off when you tried to remove the MAF screen yeah?

[kristen]

Re: I cleaned my throttle body and now the car blows white smoke

your where leaking coolant not water. and coolant goes fromthe upper intake, to the tb, so if you didn't put a new gasket on there you would leak coolant. glad you got it fixed