[Karp2004]

I have a 90 5.0 lx 5 speed , just b4 Christmas i was driveing down the road n the car started to cut out n lose power , i looked behind me and huge clouds of white smoke came out of the back i thought for sure it was the head gasket i got it home n checked everything and there was coolant leaking underneath the t/b i checked inside the intake and there was a lot of antifreeze in the plenum ,the t/b gasket broke and one of the white lines on the left of the t/b was broken.I changed the t/b to a 65mm and got new gaskets the car isnt smoking anymore,but it seems like its lacking power now.Could the antifreeze have screwed something up while it was sitting inside the engine n what does the white vacuum line do? Any help would be appriacted

[lxarlo]

you could have bent a rod. you can tell if you crank the engine continuously, and listen for inturuptions in the cranking noise. as for the lack of power. if the only mod you have is a 65 mm tb, then that will decrease throttle response slightly.