Truck smoking

tbj

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My 04 with 73,000 miles just started smoking off and on when idling, does anyone know what would cause this? Also, I do have my stealth 2 sitting on economy right now.
 

custom8726

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Could be numerous things especially being a LB7 with a bigger possibility of injector issues. That said I had a similar problem a few months back and was told it could be a sticky Injector and to try POWERSERVICE, To my surprise it worked. What color is the smoke? Does it smoke all the time or just randomly at Idle?
 

mmangels22

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Could be numerous things especially being a LB7 with a bigger possibility of injector issues. That said I had a similar problem a few months back and was told it could be a sticky Injector and to try POWERSERVICE, To my surprise it worked. What color is the smoke? Does it smoke all the time or just randomly at Idle?

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tbj

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It just smokes randomly at idle, I put some injector cleaner in it but I haven't driven it since I did that. The smoke was a blueish black color, I thought if it was the injectors that it would be white wouldn't it?
 

Big Block 88

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Injectors would be blue or whitish. Black smoke and low on power would mean you have a hole in your intercoller tube. But you aren't havein problems with power I assume?
 

tbj

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Injectors would be blue or whitish. Black smoke and low on power would mean you have a hole in your intercoller tube. But you aren't havein problems with power I assume?

No its still runs fine, I just drove it tonight and it seemed to run fine. I think I'm gonna turn up the tune to get more fuel running through it so the injector cleaner gets through it, unless y'all think it's a bad idea.