Fuel leak out exhaust-White smoke

Quinton

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Our LS has been great over the past couple years. Ran perfect a few days ago but we went to use it today and...
Leaking fuel underneath the car from the exhaust and puffing white smoke out 1 of the tailpipes. When I revved it up it didn't sound or feel like it was hitting on all 6 cylinders.

Anyone have any advice or links?

Thanks!
 
white smoke in exhaust generally means you're burning coolant... or, basically... you have a blown head-gasket. Does this smoke have a sweet smell to it?

Also, it would be virtually impossible to leak fuel from the exhaust... it COULD happen, but is HIGHLY unlikely. IF it is in-fact fuel, you could have an injector that is stuck open
 
I don't think it has a coolant smell, but it's defiantly leaking/spitting gas out of the exhaust pipe. Roughly in the middle of the car. I called my mechanic and he hadn't heard of it but he was guessing a bad fuel sender or bad gas with water that has an injector frozen.
I wanted to get the LS experts opinion based on past experiences.

(I did recently put in cheap gas)
 
Just about the only way for gas to be leaking out of your exhaust would be an injector that is stuck open. Possibly a coil that is not firing the plug at all. But this would throw a code. So absent of a code, and you're positive it is not a coolant scent, perhaps a seized injector. But this does not explain your white smoke; excess fuel would be a black smoke.
 
I don't have a clue. My mech. is coming by tomorrow with his diagnostic to see if he can figure it out. :confused:
 
His scanner didn't show anything so we just let it run. It started smoking worse. :( Then it finally started getting back to normal. He thinks maybe I got some bad gas and it stuck open a fuel injector.

It's running good now. Thanks for all the suggestions fellas!
 

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