White smoke?

[foxracer61]

Alright i have a 91 ford festiva 1.3 5speed it has 220,000 miles on it and runs really good. The other day i had a hydraulic lifter collapse on me and it was making some loud racket. I put my new one's in today and started it back up and it is quiet as a mouse but now i have a new problem. I noticed the car was smoking white out the exhaust which it had never done before. It kinda smell's like coolant but it is very faint. I did have to remove my throttle body to remove and the valve cover and i had ripped my throttle body gasket a little bit, I went ahead an put it back together since it was only torn in that one spot. MY question is on these car's i know have coolant running to the throttle body which this is the side the gasket ripped on, could coolant be leaking into the intake and making it smoke?

[william]

Im pretty sure the coolant passages are sealed I don't recall leaking any coolant last time I had mt tb off but it's been a while!
Hope some one will chime in.

[Aaronbrook37]

It absolutely could well be. I personally use high heat RTV silicone in lieu of a throttle body gasket since the B6T ones aren't easy to come by.