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Subject:Re: :0
From:David Schwarze
Date:Tue, 4 Jul 1995 18:36:08 -0700 (PDT)

Matt writes:
> 
> We were leaving in the bus for 4rth of July weekend. Just got onto 
> expressway heading out of town. All the sudden White smoke (not blue or 
> blue-whitish - white) filled the rearview mirror. I pulled over at the next 

Your master cylinder could be leaking brake fluid into the power
booster.  That fluid could have found its way into your intake manifold
via a vacuum line.  This will produce major amounts of thick white
smoke.  This actually happened to me twice (on two different vehicles).

-David

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