New Head and gasket, Smoking from exhaust side.

[Conrad311]

I snapped some rockers and got a used head off a r3v user and put new rockers and a new shaft in it, and got new top side gasket set and put everything in today and fired it up and had some smoke coming from the exhaust mani and it looks like its just from the new gasket/ heat shields. is this common? i cant see any leaks from the head..

Also the water jacket on the throttle body is leaking like a bastard cause i didnt get a new gasket for the piece that the 2 coolant lines hook up, so i tried using rtv and its still pissing out, can i just loop the lines and not have any bad consequences? it seems like it just heats the pcv hose, or is it meant to heat all the intake air?

thoughts?

[thereisnoyun]

everytiem I do a headgasket change it always blow white smoke for a while esp, if previously the head gasket blew. It mostly go away after 30 min of drivign and intermittently still puffs out white smoke for a couple days on start ups. I dont know if you are experiencing the same thing.

[shiboujin]

When you do that much work to the car, oils, grease, your mom's vag juice, and solvents get all over your exhaust parts. It heat cycles and burns them off. I wouldn't be concerned unless you are losing fluids.

[SpecM]

Also the water jacket on the throttle body is leaking like a bastard cause i didnt get a new gasket for the piece that the 2 coolant lines hook up, so i tried using rtv and its still pissing out, can i just loop the lines and not have any bad consequences? it seems like it just heats the pcv hose, or is it meant to heat all the intake air?

I say bypass it, everyone else has haha

[jlevie]

Bypassing the throttle body heater is acceptable in a southern climate, or for a car that won't see cold winter weather. For a northern car that is driven in the winter, not such a good idea. The throttle body heater's purpose is to prevent the throttle plate from freezing. And under the right conditions that can happen. Things get exciting when you lift off accelerator at speed and discover that the throttle is frozen.