blue smoke on cold start?
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I run diesel kleen with cetane booster, and I will get some smoke sometimes that might be it, I ran some b10 biodiesel through the beast and that loosened up some junk so you could try that as a good cleaning approach just make sure to get a new fuel filter and change it after you run a tank of bio through it. I talked to my mom and they are having some fuel rail issues and one of their injectors leaks a little too and that is what causes her powerstroke to blow blue some smoke when it starts so I know it's a powerstroke but it's the same type of problem so it might give you some ground to go on.
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well. back from the dealer. they could find nothing wrong. they say the injectors are with in spec. they said they could be leaking some. but since there in spec. they can't and won't change them. so b10 and some two stroke oil. will be next. other than that' i'm so mad i hope one fails and melts a big hole in the piston. than they can put in a new motor.
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you shouldn't need 2stroke with b10 I didn't, no ATF or ne thing crazy it has the lubricity it's when you get to b20 u have to worry, ne way yeah you can run diesel kleen too with the bio for that cetane booster and man you will feel the difference I just wish I had the HE351 on my truck cuz it would spool so much better **** this money crunch.
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a little update. truck smoked one more morning. after the flash. have since quit. ran a bottle of diesel keeln throught it and no blue smoke. so mabey the flash and the power service did the trick.
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For what it's worth, last year at about this time my 06 started doing the same thing. Starting real rough in the mornings, while it was still like 70F outside, and it would blow blue smoke for a good few minutes before it cleared up. It went to the dealer twice and they couldn't find out what the problems was, each time it came back it still did it. Turns out the fuel filter was plugged and I fixed it myself. I didn't have many miles on that filter either so even if you have changed it recently, change it again.
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i have this symptom the colder it is the more it smokes real cold i smoke up the block very cold i dont start
plug it in...
I never thought this was a problem, just typical diesel. All the semis do it all the cats do it.
plug it in...
I never thought this was a problem, just typical diesel. All the semis do it all the cats do it.
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