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Old Feb 5, 2008 | 08:38 PM
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Question white smoke on cold mornings

Hi this is my first diesel truck and I'm wondering is it normal for the truck to have white smoke on start-up durring cold mornings and especially -15 to -20 celcius. I have 07 5.9 with 8000Km on it.
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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 10:23 AM
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A little is normal as long as it goes away after you get it warmed up.
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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 02:29 PM
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To be safe I'm dropping the truck off tomorrow night at the dealer just to make sure everything is working good.
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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 02:36 PM
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yeah thats normal, when it warms up it goes away.
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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by T-REX
yeah thats normal, when it warms up it goes away.
she smokes pretty good if you don't let it warm up properly and especially in
-20 weather.
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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 07:14 PM
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yes it is normal, usually stinks also
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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 01:53 PM
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Are you talking about seeing a light white smoke that you see coming out of a cars exhaust/tail pipe? If so mine will do this at around -15 below zero or colder (but not at warmer temps) and that is normal. BTW in my truck it has taken 20 minuets or more for it to go away at -24 below zero.
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