What Your Car Tail Pipe Might Be Telling You.

Observation they say is key, the power of observation helps avert looming dangers.

The fumes from the exhaust of your car tells you about the state of your engine if this is

Religiously observed, this could save you cost and the worries of corrective maintenance

Basically, there are three colors of smoke that come through your exhaust system these are the

Usual dark smoke and the white or light blue smoke let us see what this tells about our engine

State.

THICK DARK SMOKE

When dark smoke is noticed from your exhaust it’s an indication that your vehicle is burning fuel

This is because the fuel injected into the combustion chamber is not properly burned as a result

This unused fuel comes as black smoke.

The black smoke may also be an indication that the walls of your cylinders are wearing off notably

due to the presence of carbon build up in your engine.

There could be several factors to this abnormality as well.

AIR FUEL RATIO

Air fuel ratio could be described as the amount of fuel and air mixture, for

Proper combustion to take place there has to be a certain amount of air and fuel mixture

If the amount (ratio) of air mixing with fuel is low then certainly we ll have an incomplete

Combustion which could as well lead to black smokes

BAD TIMING CHAIN, ROCKER ARM, TAPPET RODS

The Importance of an engine's timing gears can not be overemphasized, this is because they

Constitute a large percentage of the fuel management system.

A faulty rocker arm, bad timing gear or chain as the case may be, loose governor and tappet,

Or even a bad carburetor can also lead to black smoke.

WHITE /BLUE SMOKE

This abnormality simply explains one thing that your engine is burning oil.

There are several causes of this defect which I will highlight, this includes.

OVERFILLING THE SUMP

One of the resultant effects of over gauging your oil is this, this is usually done ignorantly just

To prevent oil shortage, when this occurs, the pressure generated by the engine while running

Pushes the excessive oils through tiny clearance from the rings to the combustion chamber to

Burn as fuel.

BAD OIL RINGS / FAULTY VALVE SEAL

A faulty valve seal or bad oil scraper rings can also allow oil leaks to the combustion

Chamber which results to the white smoke.

A proper heed to your car exhaust goes along way in telling you the true state of your engine

What you are doing wrong and what should be done to correct these anomalies.