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Hello Mr. Kilmer, 

Thanks for all the knowledge and guidance first of all. So I have a 2001 Toyota Avalon XLS. It has about 198K miles on it. I believe it's a V6 automatic engine. I changed the oil with regular Orielly 5w 30 conventional engine oil. Took it for a spin and as u mentioned in your video's. I checked under the car to see if it was leaking. It was leaking drops of what I thought was oil so I changed it again this time using  Quaker Stake 5w 30 synthetic blend. Took it for a spin again looked under hood again just to realize it was leaking drops of water from a tube under the car. I was going to take it out of town two days later. That day came, I stared it up and it was smoking for a little bit. I couldn't really tell if it was from the engine bay or from the tailpipe since I used a remote start to have it running while I move my other vehicle from in front of it. It looked like it cleared up up a minute or two later but I was in a hurry so I just left it and took a different vehicle. What do you think could be the issue? Thanks in advance.


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When ICE vehicles start on cool, humid mornings, transparent white smoke will be emitted from the tail pipe for a short period of time.  This is normal.  If the smoke is fairly opaque, doesn't dissipate in a few minutes and the idle seems rough, it indicates a blown head gasket.


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