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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 04:18 PM
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you have a case of IDLE SMOKE .

thats what happens when your timing is retarded or you have big injectors and dv's that put too much fuel in the cylinder at idle with no air to burn it.

Highly modded trucks have idle smoke for the reason stated above.

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