Hey guys. Bought a 2005 Dodge 2500 6 speed with 117,xxx miles from my buddy a year ago. Started burning oil around 113,xxx miles. Truck now has 147.xxx miles. I towed my skid steer last weekend and the day after had a rough idle and oil dripping from crank case breather tube and oil under my truck.

I am thinking the rough idle is from a injector. So can a bad injector also cause the extra oil drip from the breather tube now? Breather tube has more white smoke coming out than I remember. Truck still has tons of power and runs great. Just rough idle on start up. And a little rougher once warmed up. I sopped in to talk to out local diesel hot rod shop. They told me injectors are $600.00 a pop for Bosch. . Any suggestions on a set of stock injectors that wont break the bank.?

 

check for blow by, thats what it is sounding like to me.

 

x2 on the blow by. Sounds like someone hodrodded the truck for it to do that with that mileage. (I would NEVER do that--lol)

The white smoke is injector related but is noticed in the exhaust, not the breather tube so much.

Have a cylinder contribution test done (or compression test will work too) and you'll be able to identify the offending cylinder(s).

Injectors are 600 a pop. You do NOT want bargain injectors. Bargain injectors very often cause a $10k rebuild bill.

 

Thanks guys...!!!

 

So I had my oil checked for diesel. And it does have diesel in it. So I bought a injector line block off cap to isolate the injectors. Anything I need to be careful with removing injector lines from the fuel rail to cap off?

 

make sure you do not get any debris in there. i would also do a compression test on all of your cylinders.