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Smoke machine leak checker

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November 17, 2019, 07:00 AM
BJs Wild Ride
Smoke machine leak checker
I used to borrow a high end evap machine but don’t have access any more. At least twice now I have been positive I had the motor sealed up only to coat the entire car in oil on the very next pass (blown bbc’s in my experience always want to push oil if you give them the chance).

So, I’d like to start making it a practice of smoking everything before I run it. Seems like a chimney bomb in some kind of regulatable disassembalable tank would be easy but I don’t want to spend a bunch of time (or money) on this if I don’t have to.
November 17, 2019, 09:29 AM
67TSCHEVY2
Research on eBay . A guy on there sells a steel gallon paint can with air fittings , regulator and 12 volt wick . You put mineral oil in it and the wick heats it up from a 12 volt source and the smoke travels out a barbed fitting at I think 3psi . It was like 45.00 bucks and works great .
November 17, 2019, 09:43 AM
CURTIS REED
I bought one of those and it does work pretty well. The only thing for me is I hated the smell of the mineral oil smoke and the engine will smell like it for a while. It’s not overwhelming by any means, I just didn’t like it. Found leaks though. You have to give it a while for the smoke to move completely through the engine.

Curtis



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November 17, 2019, 09:45 AM
BJs Wild Ride
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SMOKE...5738.m4383.l4275.c10

That one?
November 17, 2019, 02:01 PM
CURTIS REED
Yes



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November 17, 2019, 05:37 PM
67TSCHEVY2
LOLOLOL ....the smoke smell will choke a goat ...but yes give it a little time . I use it on evap leak codes and it works great for the $ .
November 18, 2019, 01:03 PM
Bruce Williams
I used a cheap halloween smoke machine. Lots of smoke.


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November 18, 2019, 02:53 PM
CURTIS REED
quote:
Originally posted by Bruce Williams:
I used a cheap halloween smoke machine. Lots of smoke.


How do you get it to pressurize the engine?



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November 18, 2019, 04:15 PM
Bruce Williams
quote:
Originally posted by CURTIS REED:
quote:
Originally posted by Bruce Williams:
I used a cheap halloween smoke machine. Lots of smoke.


How do you get it to pressurize the engine?

It puts out enough pressure to work


Bruce Lee Cool

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.