White smoke?

[TexasRob]

I have recenlty noticed my truck will white smoke when in drive and not moving. It starts to do this after about 10 or 15 seconds (like sitting at a stop light) it does not smoke when started or when left to idle in park or neutral. I used a bottle of injector cleaner and it seemed to lessen the smoke but not cure it. Im really pissed because I just bought the truck 2 months ago and it started this in the last couple weeks. 142K miles any suggestions would be great

 

[Stevenmc89]

Do you have any way to check injector balance rates?

 

[Aaron@LDS]

You might have a sticking/leaking injector. Check you balance rates with a Tech II or EFI Live, or some type of OBD diagnostic tool.

 

[TexasRob]

I personally don't have a diagnostic tool. There is a local diesel shop Twisted Diesel but he is mainly into power strokes so ive been reluctant to do any business with him.

 

[dmax711]

Is there a surge at all to it at idle? A bad fpr made mine smoke

 

[TexasRob]

I have not noticed any surge at idle

 

[Stevenmc89]

It's gonna be hard to diagnose it without out balance rates and all. I would suggest going to the dealer or a local shop and just pay the 80 dollar diagnostic charge and get a scanner or tec II hooked up and report the info back to us because without some numbers all we can do is make guesses and you throw parts at it

 

[TexasRob]

Thanks for the help Im gonna run by the local dealership tomorrow and hopefully they can fit me in real quick. Ill let you know

 

[Stevenmc89]

Hey bud, you got any new info for us yet?

 

[paint94979]

Run a quart of 2 stroke oil to 5 gallons of fuel and see if it helps

 

[christopherglenn]

Watch the outside temps. It could be as simple as cold weather cooling the exhaust pipe & exhaust coming out of it causing the water vapor in the exhaust to be visible.

 

[TexasRob]

I havnt had time to get to the dealership work has been super busy. I plan on going monday morning.

 

[TexasRob]

well verdict is in i got one bad injector. next step is to replace injectors. I really dont have the money to drop on all eight right now. I was wondering if it would hurt if i changed two at a time over the next six months.

 

[LReiff]

Replace 4 at a time, one whole bank. You'll understand why I say that once you have the old injectors out.

 

[TexasRob]

yeah it looks like a pain in the ass ive looked up the pictures on the dissasembly