Can some one please help me figer out what this smoke is that my truck is blowing???????

When I crank up my truck it smokes a lite gray or a white smoke??? There are pics in my Galery please take a look at them and let me know what smoke is for what pics. I have the pics Numbered by PIC 1 and PIC 2 and so on please help if you can. Also these are pics of me reving the truck its the only way I could get the smoke to show up on cam. The smoke will do this for a bit, but my wife was folowing me and she said that it stoped after a 10 to 15min drive... The truck will smoke with out reving it up it smokes at idle to but I cant get it on cam the smoke is to lite of a coler....

If the pics aint in my Gallery please check back soon they just havnet been aproved PLEASE HELP!!!

 

When your truck is cold - as in first thing in the morning - it will show a little white/lite gray smoke. This is due to the KSB solenoid advancing timing about 5 degrees. Once the engine temp comes up the KSB solenoid lets the timing back to it's per start-up position. It is a normal operating condition - not to worry.

Bob

 

Ya but its not just in the moring its any time I let the truck sit for say 10 to 30mins to not just in the morning

 

And when I rev it up and jump out to go smell he smoke it smells like somthing buring????

 

That sure looks like regular white smoke to me. Does it make your eyes water when you stand in the cloud?

As long as it doesn't smell like burning coolant, it's normal white smoke. White smoke is incompletely burned diesel fuel, caused by too cool a temp in the cylinder - unlike black smoke which is unburned diesel caused by not enough air.

 

here's my white smoke on start up. that was taken on a pretty cold morning though. try running a healthy dose of stanadyne through the tank. if that doesn't help, you might have to pull the injectors and have them tested. i just had mine done after having them in for less than a year. one was so bad it only had one super-soaker like stream coming off it (it shoulda had four nice misted streams).

dave

 

Would this smoke look kinda gray and would this smoke be stedy for a good 10 to 20mins after Every start up?

 

And how much does it run to have my injectors checked

 

as far as how much smoke and when, yeah. and as far as $ go, all i had to pay for were new washers ($6). the guy i took them to doesn't charge unless they need adjustment. mine didn't, just needed a good cleaning. he said if he had to adjust, it would be $60. that seemed like the going price for around here.

 

Sho-shane, it sounds like your KSB may be on the fritz.

The KSB is the thing on the side of the injection pump with a wire going to it. Next time you cold start the truck, pull that wire off first and see if the truck smokes worse. If it's no worse, the KSB system has a problem and we can point you in the right direction to making it work again.

 

Hey dave sorry to steal the thread sho but my kbs came of tonite and the truck wouldnt start, i thought my battire was dead so i popped the hood and there it was just hangin there, i also noticed a ton more smoke on the way home and played a lot more but does that sound right that the kbs causes the truck not to start?

 

wannadiesel ill check that in the morning and get back to you and thanks for all the help guys. Please let me know any more idias to try if yall can think of any

 

And if you guys dont mind me asking what does KSB stand for?

 

Your wife? Dude, no offense, but I wouldn't have guessed you were married.

About your smoke, your driving a diesel. If it ain't smokin it ain't running

 

Why wouldnt you have guessed I was married?