Smoke and Smell!

[swindorski46]

JUST picked the car up after having a brand spanking new clutch fitted and whan I got home smoke started coming in to the car through the transmission tunnel, and I coul;d see it coming out of the bonnet too.

It did smell a bit "Clutchy" so is this normal?

[satman]

I wouldnt have said so......id give the garage a quick call if i were you..

[GCerbera]

Not heard of that before either, as Paddy said, speak to your garage quickly.

[swindorski46]

Spoke to them straight away but all of the mechanics had knocked off. None of them are in tomorrow either!

[kojak69]

I'm sure i've seen this before. I think it was the gearbox gasget that was leaking oil on to the exhaust.

[BCA]

Probably a really stupid question, but what are you parked over???

We had smoke like that everytime we parked up at the campsite at lemans - cats were ingiting the grass underneath!!!

Looking back, im sure it was probably worth panicing about - odd how Le Mans just eases you in to not caring about anything else in the world at that time

[andy4200]

It might just be some clutch fluid that they spilt while bleeding it. If it was lying on the manifolds or thereabouts you would see the smoke and smell it.

[joospeed]

clutch fluid normally stops smoking after a while, on first starup you often get a bit as the manifolds heat up, but it goes after maybe 10 seconds .. don't forget clutch / brake fluids are one of the biggest causes of underbonnet fires too *yikes* .. so any smoke is worthy of investigation .. my advice is leave the car and don't drive it until the garage has taken a look .. recently saw a battery cable melted onto exhaust .. lots of smoke and dead car ..

joo