Whenever its real cold out and i turn the car on it starts to leak a substance (im not sure what it is tho) anyone know what the problem is or is there no problem at all its just cold so it happens thanx

 

thats nothing really...theres something you could by for that at any store its called gas line antifreeze

 

Condensation(sp?)...most cars iv seen blow some water out da tailpipe..mine does..my friends MR2 will blow water about 3 feet if he revs it sometimes
now if you have like a stream of water coming from your tailpipe....there may be a prob hehe.

 

not quite sure how gas line antifreze is going to help is muffler......

the water that he is seeing is a direct result of buring hydrocarbons aka gasoline. the direct product of this reaction is H2O + CO2 + NOx + SOx . Durring the summer you do not see this as often because the exhaust system has enough time to heat up. IN the winter when it is cold it takes longer for the exhaust system to reach temperature. Thus H2O will condense on the inside of the pipes. Just like H2O condenses on the out side of a beer bottle on a hot humid summer day!

Fro

 

geez fro, that was a complex definition, over my head! haha except for that beer bottle part I think i learned somehting new today...

 

heehee..don't u just love BAD advice on the BBS?

 

I'd say more than likely it's condensation that drips from the tail pipe. I do know that it's not good if your car does that all the time (spits out a stream of water). It'll rust out your exhaust. Fords have a huge problem with this, especially the Thunderbirds.

 

Man, there's lots of mis/dis-information going on here..

water coming out of the tailpipe is PERFECTLY NORMAL on any car.. yeah, if there's tons of it there, it can mean there's other problems, but 99.9% of the time it simply means the exhaust pipes are cold enough to cause water to condense..

you know when you start your car on cold mornings and you see tons of steam roll out of the exhaust? SAME DANG THING! the reason it dissappears later is that the exhaust gets hot enough to cause it to completely evaporate into the air, instead of form tiny water droplets and make the fog you see.

As fro said, water is a direct product of burning hydrocarbons (gasoline, propane, butane, ethane, methane, etc etc)
hydrocarbons are exactly what they sound like.. chemicals with hydrogen and carbon in them (there is also other stuff in most gasoline, but I'll omit that to keep it simple.) the hydrocarbons react with the oxygen in the air to produce carbon dioxide (carbon & oxygen molecule) and water (hydrogen and oxygen molecule), and lots of heat.
the heat is what makes your engine operate and causes the water to turn into an invisible gas.

if your exhaust is cold, the invisible steam (gas form of water) cools off enough to turn back into liquid water, then drops/runs/shoots out the exhaust..

make a little more sense?
more mad scientist classes later..

 

dis information my a$$ ...that stuff works, ive tried it ,and you should to to see for yourself...frankly im offended and i dont like you guys anymore ...j/k

 

motor swap huh?? grrr I'll get you guys for that one

 

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Man, I feel like I'm in science class or something

 

btw,i tried it cause i was afraid of my pipes rusting away

 

i am stupid! i failed science...