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    Increasing Rail Pressure to Control Idle Haze

    Me too..no problems towing 15k unless you were next to me at a stop light..
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    Hydroboost trouble shooting?

    Incase anyone find this thread trying to diagnose a similar problem it was the PS pump..
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    Hydroboost trouble shooting?

    The power steering pump?
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    Hydroboost trouble shooting?

    Wondering if anyone has any suggestions on where to start diagnosing on this. Yesterday I was doing a 3 point turn and when I went to full lock I started getting a loud rubbing noise/vibration and feedback through the brake pedal and steering wheel. Not your typical low power steering fluid...
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    Building front end

    Definitely replace the pitman while you are in there. Mine snapped unexpectedly while pulling into a driveway. Was a total pain in the ass to get the truck off the road. Had to jack it up and strap the wheels over and over till I got it in a place I could work on it. Glad it didn't happen while...
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    LB7 - Can I delay replacing injectors?

    Mine went from slight haze to smoking out an intersection when sitting at a long stop light in a couple weeks.
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    01-10 steering box redhead ,PSC ,OEM

    Going to be rebuilding my front end, the stud on my pitman arm snapped so I'm doing a new kryptonite pitman and some dmax store tie rods. While under there I realized I should redo everything I haven't replaced recently. I'm going to replace lower ball joints, arm bushings, idler, cv boots and...
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    LB7 Blowing Smoke under heavy acceleration

    Unburned oil in the exhaust pipe. Can remove the front pipe (where downpipe from the turbo attaches to the rest of the exhaust that runs under truck) and have someone rev it up while you are looking and see if any oil comes out. On mine it would only put oil into the exhaust when you revved it.
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    LB7 Blowing Smoke under heavy acceleration

    Looks like turbo is pushing oil. I just dealt with the same thing...check your exhaust for oil first.
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    This did the trick. Was still a pain in the ass.
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    Well turbo for the valley finally showed up after sitting 100miles away for 3 days. Didn’t really need more air but didn’t want to put stock stuff back in if it was coming apart again. I thought I was being smart by not removing exhaust housing but am struggling to get the oil drain gasket to...
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    Nothing besides the exhaust housing is discolored. Even the "ceramic coating" I sprayed on the cross over where the downpipe is normally hasn't changed color. Don't know what that grey coating is they use on the factory exhaust housing is but it might just be paint and I'd imagine that doesn't...
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    10k miles. Had been sitting around for a long time before I put it in though. Was pretty dirty but I cleaned it up good before I installed it but I didn’t pull the compressor wheel and pull the shaft out. I was wondering about the color also. My old one I took out was the same color too but had...
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    Turned out not to be the injectors. Valley turbo was pushing oil which is strange because that was my first thought and I had the atmosphere out and didn’t see any oil. Started pulling everything apart planning on pulling the valve covers and there was oil in the downpipe. Was only pushing a...
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    Well I unplugged fpr yesterday and turned it on and off a few times. Have to remove ac compressor to plug it back in so couldn’t plug/unplug it while it was running. This morning I took it out and “commanded” full rail pressure with the skinny pedal quite a few times and it’s still doing it...
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    That's what I was thinking..
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    Thank you..I'll have to see if the chicom scanner I have can command rail pressure..I've never used it on my truck, I just have the edge to read codes..
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    Well that escalated quickly. Looks like the valve covers are coming off again, it isn't using any coolant and it stops once you are on the throttle. Radiator hose isn't rock hard either. Strange thing is the balance rates are all .5+/- except two that are -1.7 but with the oil the color it is it...
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    Well the plot thickens a little. The other day when I was pulling in driveway I thought I saw some smoke/haze blow by as I stopped. Didn't see it again so figured it was dust or something. Yesterday on the way home as I rolled up to a stop light I got a pretty decent puff that stopped as soon as...
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    September '23 Chat --"Jason finds his truck!"

    I was planning on doing an oil analysis before the next change to make sure nothing got hurt during the oil cooler incident. It’s not making any oil that I can tell and the injectors are fairly new also but that’s a good call. I do have one of those banana pans that is supposed to drain all...
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