Greetings from Texas. I just joined this forum and wanted join in some of the discussions about the Powerstroke 6.0 diesel. I am a REAL diesel novice, and know very little about them. We have a 34Ft 5th wheel and the diesel is the vehicle of choice, or seemed to be, when pulling something like this. I have a 2004 F350, purchased new, and have never had a problem with it. Until last Friday, that is. We were on our way to Fredericksburg, TX and apparently blew the EGR cooler. Massive white smoke from exhaust. Tow truck towed truck and rig to the campground, then towed truck to local Ford dealer, who confirmed the bad news.

One question...when I asked the dealer about precautions to take to avoid a recurrence, he told me that he was going to install the upgraded version of the EGR cooler, and that I would probably never have this problem again.

Does anyone have any experience with the "upgraded EGR cooler"? Does that sound reasonable, that I would probably not have a problem again?

Thanks for reading and responding.

Dave

 

I was blowing white smoke so i cleaned the EGR and added a fuel cleaner (SEA FOAM) to my fuel and crankcase and no more smoke. But I'm losing coolant. WHY?

 

Replied to your question in the other thread, no need to ask the same question in the same spot more than once, we will see it. Just takes us some time to respond usually. To answer it again... either blown headgaskets, blown egr cooler, or a faulty cap/coolant reservoir, or all three.

 

I'm thinking of going with bullet proof Diesels setup for oil cooler and EGR upgrade, DLC that might be what your mech was talking about. I'm not aware of Ford making and upgraded EGR...

 

Yeah, Ford doesn't have an "upgraded EGR cooler". They have two different versions, the round style found in most 03 and early 04 trucks and the square style found in 04+ and they both suck.

 

I have a 2006 ford diesel with what I think is an egr problem. No water loss but there is blue smoke but only some times, not continuous. Knowing that there are problems with this, is there any one that builds a dummy egr system that will pass smog inspections since I live in California