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Old 09-07-2011, 06:09 PM
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White smoke on start up

About 3 months ago I noticed that my truck puffs out some white smoke for about 5 seconds when i start it up after it has been sitting for awhile. Now I did some searching on here and found that this is most associated with a leaky injector but I haven't noticed any increase in oil. The truck only has 68k miles on it, could this be the problem or could there be something else.
Old 09-07-2011, 06:28 PM
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On my 06 I had this problem twice. Both times it was due to leaky injectors. In total I had 8 injectors replaced. The first time was two and the second they replaced all 6. Worked both times.
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Try changing the fuel filter. My filter had become plugged after only a couple of thousand miles and it was causing the truck to produce a cloud of white smoke and rough idle on start up. Changing the filter fixed it for me.
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I'll try changing the filter and see if that helps. Other then it smoking on start up the truck runs great so I hope it's not an injector
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