White cloud of smoke from exhaust only upon start up?

Tiny
DENTMC27
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  • 2008 NISSAN TITAN
  • 78,000 MILES
So I just got an 08 titan about 3 days ago and it was idling at the dealership with below a 1/4 tank of gas in it and ran completely out of gas once gas was put back in truck the next day white cloud of smoke from exhaust. Thank you for any help u can provide.
Thursday, April 18th, 2013 AT 12:18 PM

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Tiny
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Hello,

There are several reasons why you could get white smoke during startup.
One of the common causes for these vehicles is leaking intake manifold gasket.
It can also cause if there is a leak in the head gasket. The leak can be too small to have excessive amount of coolant for it to have white smoke all the time but as the vehicle sits overnight or a period of time it will have some coolant that crates the white some on start up.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/white-smoke-or-steam-coming-from-the-exhaust-pipe

There is a test that you can be done to see if the head gasket is leaking. It uses a chemical to detect combustion gases in the coolant.

Here is a helpful video on the test:

https://youtu.be/5zpNjYmmiYY

I have attached diagrams for your reference.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you.
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