I have a 1998 ford windstar V6. and im having lots of white smoke pouring out tail pipe with lite water what can this be

its a GEO POPPER.
"no oil up on crank case"

no idea what that means.??????
yes PCV valve. do clog.

white smoke at end if tail pipe.
you didnt say where,?

white smoke has 2 reasons.(tail end)
Steam and oil.
steam goes away fast and looks just like moms tea pot. and smells sweet, like the antifreeze in engine. (rad cap off ,sniff sniff, cold engine)

oil burning, smoke is very very slow to go away.
and smells like , blush burned oil.
if not sure what burn oil looks like or smells like
take out the dip stick on a hot engine
let it drip to the hot exhaust manifold there.
now you know. and is a key diagnostic skill.


no oil seen on dip stick end?, you mean that?
well you need to keep that from happening,
doing weekly service, and for sure old cars.
26 years old.

low oil invites blowing up a good engine.
for sure.
if it did that smoke is oil
if it did 10x worse, both .

my wild guess is you meant to say
I didnt see oil leaking on top of engine.
right?

if the engine backwires to the air cleaner
you forgot to replace the cam belt every 60k miles
the pcv will also be clogged, on cars not getting proper service, super colon.
if the PCV clogs,engine may leak oil bad.

this engine btw is a G10 3 cylinder.
with TBI injection.
we can talk TBI all day, owned one.

white smoke can come from many places
exhaust manifold, leaks of oil can land there
engine can back fire to air cleaner making smoke.
tail end.
steam is much worse. ill not delve in to that yet/.

Are you saying you have smoke coming out of the tail pipe ? Or is something dripping onto the exhaust pipe and burning ?
If the smoke is coming out of the tail pipe, is it blue, white, or black ?

Possibly a blown head gasket, letting coolant into the cylinders to be burned. White smoke is usually coolant burning. Have the engine's compression tested to verify.

sounds like cylinder head gasket cheak oil filler is there a white gunky paste there also cheake radiator filler cap for same thing if so its a oil and water mix head gasket need doing

lot of white smoke from tail pipe usally means blown gasket tats the water mixing with the oil. a couple of certain ways to no if its blown is if car is overheating, water in oil. hope this helps

overheating, white smoke from tail pipe(ignore this one during cold weather), oil is light brown or milky looking which indicates water in the oil, and of course loosing coolant when there is no coolant leak

THER ARE THREE COLORS OF SMOKE. WHITE IS WATER, BLUE BURNING OIL, BLACK RUNNING RICH.CHECK COOLANT LEVEL AND DO A BLOCK TEST. HOPE THIS WILL HELP YOU SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM.

disconnect carter-gases pipe(over the ref-pos sensor), and if smoke stops, You don't need new engine :)

If there is white smoke coming out of tail pipe, the head gasket is blown. needs to be replaced.

You may have a leaking head gasket. This is a common site on higher mileage 2.3L engines.