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03-05-2014, 10:36 AM | #21 |
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Re: Car "spits" water droplets from tailpipes.
Maybe its just me, but I would fix all the external leaks and NOT put antifreeze in an engine that I suspect has an internal leak. Good luck Gary
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03-05-2014, 10:50 AM | #22 | |
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03-05-2014, 11:37 AM | #23 |
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Re: Car "spits" water droplets from tailpipes.
Water is a by-product of combustion.
Here's the Readers Digest version, Combustion is a sequence of exothermic(heat releasing) chemical reactions between a fuel, most likely a hydrocarbon, and an oxidant, which will always be oxygen. Water, more specifically water vapor, is formed in a combustion reaction because the reactants (initial compounds/elements) chemically change when energy is added to the equation to form the products of water vapor and often carbon dioxide. What's dripping from the end of your taipipe is condensation Last edited by blueovalbob; 03-05-2014 at 11:58 AM. |
03-05-2014, 01:30 PM | #24 |
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Re: Car "spits" water droplets from tailpipes.
Jake197000 mentioned that "most" mufflers have a small factory drain hole drilled in the rear of the thing just above the seam. My near-new system seems to have no drain holes at all. I guess that means that all that water which is produced naturally, has no way out except the tailpipes (after who-knows how much of the stuff has sat in there for days, rusting out the system). All this is made worse by the fact that the old girl never gets a decent high-speed drive.
I still like harleynut's suggestion for telling the difference between normal condensate, and leaking coolant. |
03-05-2014, 02:35 PM | #25 | |
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How does one measure water vapor in gallons? Seems to me that water vapor is a gas with varying density depending on many different factors. Which reminds me: If I remember correctly, at one of my first jobs as kitchen help (dishwasher) at a restaurant, we always sent the new guys to the basement to get us a bucket of steam when we needed one. We also sent them to the storage room for wall stretchers when we knew a big crowd was coming. |
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03-05-2014, 08:28 PM | #26 |
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03-05-2014, 11:32 PM | #27 |
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Re: Car "spits" water droplets from tailpipes.
I sure may not remember the complete guts of it, but I remember enough of my High-school Chemistry and Physics to know that we were taught that burning a hydro-carbon fuel such as petrol (note the word "hydro" in hydro-carbon), will result in the release of carbon compounds plus WATER ! It's the carbon side of things that gets the greeny's all worked up. The water bit is great for the garden.
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