That's what was coming out of my truck this morning.

Long story short:

Christmas lights got too wet last night and tripped the GFI outlet in the garage.
Whole garage runs through this GFI (lights, openers, outlets)
I got home, unplugged the lights and reset the GFI.
Forgot, however to reset the timer my truck plugs into at night.

18 degrees when I fired it up.
Noticed the wait to start stayed on a little longer than usual, but as my truck was plugged in to the extension cord, I just figured it was very cold.

Truck started right up, but thick billowy white smoke was just pouring out of the tailpipe.
I smelled it, just to make sure it wasn't oil

This continued for about 3 minutes, good thing the house next door is vacant, or they would have got a snoot full.

Thought to myself, this hasn't happened when the truck has been plugged in, hmmmmmmm.

Checked the timer and it was running 6 hours behind.

I wish I would have thought to grab the camera and take a picture.
Not something you see everyday.

Oh, and this also confirmed that yet again that my cold weather idle wasn't enabled correctly the last time I tried.
Idle stayed right at 800 ish for the 6 minutes it took to scrape the windows and get the kids suited up for school.

Guess I have to get medieval on the Dealer Service guy next oil change. >


phox

 

i see white smoke all the time from a cold burn, not incorrect timing. it only happens for a minute or so until the egts pull up to around 250-300. this always happens below 20*. with the marine pump, it smokes no matter what--black, hazy white, maybe blue...depends......but that's for different reasons.

Tom

 

One of these days I'll be able to make it smoke like that at will.
Black smoke though. ;D

phox

 

mine smokes black at idle sometimes and will make smoke rings 'cause the idle will get very jumpy when cold and the grid heaters cycling.

 

I see that every cold morning firing up the old R model Mack

 

HAPPENS TO ME EVERY MORNING WHEN IT'S COLD.DOES IT ON DUMP TRUCK (350 CUMMINGS) AND ON JETTA (NON TDI).
I BELIEVE IT IS NORMAL,PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'AM WRONG

 

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HAPPENS TO ME EVERY MORNING WHEN IT'S COLD.DOES IT ON DUMP TRUCK (350 CUMMINGS) AND ON JETTA (NON TDI).
I BELIEVE IT IS NORMAL,PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'AM WRONG
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Yep very normal.nothing to worry about

 

This happens quite frequently, I start my truck and go inside to finish getting ready for the day. When I come back out I cant hardley breathe. The neighbors may not like it, But I love the smell of diesel in the morning.

 

Yup, it's normal.

Just not normal for my truck to do it, since I supposedly have it plugged in every night.

I've only seen it one other time, and thats when I left it unplugged on purpose, to see if the cold weather idle was working, but it wasn't near the amount it was yesterday morning.

Now I check the timer when I plug it in, to make sure it is working properly.
I also found the string of lights that was soaking wet and shorting to ground, so it shouldn't happen again.

All better now.


phox

 

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Yup, it's normal.

Just not normal for my truck to do it, since I supposedly have it plugged in every night.

I've only seen it one other time, and thats when I left it unplugged on purpose, to see if the cold weather idle was working, but it wasn't near the amount it was yesterday morning.

Now I check the timer when I plug it in, to make sure it is working properly.
I also found the string of lights that was soaking wet and shorting to ground, so it shouldn't happen again.

All better now.



phox
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[quote author=phox_mulder link=board=10;threadid=23833;start=0#msg225264 date=1071697565]
Yup, it's normal.

Just not normal for my truck to do it, since I supposedly have it plugged in every night.

I've only seen it one other time, and thats when I left it unplugged on purpose, to see if the cold weather idle was working, but it wasn't near the amount it was yesterday morning.

Now I check the timer when I plug it in, to make sure it is working properly.
I also found the string of lights that was soaking wet and shorting to ground, so it shouldn't happen again.

All better now.


Mine don't do it when pluged in.


phox
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