So I am looking for some help! I am noticing small puffs of white smoke from my tail pipes when the truck is cold. I let it warm up for a few min every start after it sits for a few hours in any temperature. I dont think its burning coolant I have been down the headgasket road and seen that white smoke before It seemed like thicker white smoke I guess you could say. What I am getting now and this is recent within past coupe days when the truck isnt hot, while driving if I stop at a redlight and idle for a min or so when I hit the gas it blows out , a decent size puff of white smoke but doesnt look like it did when I went thru the head gasket issue. Any ideas? injector? After it gets hot doesnt do it or atleast not bad enough I can see/notice it.
I am also getting a steering sticking issue. I have greased the joints in the front end Is there anywhere else? When I turn right or left it doesnt want to come back. I will make it come back and it will jerk back all of a sudden, then it will jerk back the original way I turned. (Mind of its own?) Any help would be greatly appreciated
About the truck, 2006 F250 extended cab, 110,4XX odom, egr delete,arp studs, sct tuner set at stock now since it started to smoke but I was running the sport tune, straight pipe, banks ram air intake with cfm intake elbow. Headgasket issue was about 95,000 miles. Daily driven not driven like a hot rode, not used to tow anything other then a small 10-12 ft quad trailer. I left the egr valve in when I did the delete could that make a difference?
Thanks for any help,
Jim

 

Next time it's smoking, get out and smell it. Does it smell sweet like coolant or strong like diesel? (diesel will probably bug your eyes a little bit too).

Could just be weak/dying batteries or a dying FICM, or it could be gaskets again, who knows. Need to know what the fumes smell like (coolant or diesel).

Does it do it if you have the other tunes loaded on? I know when I load my tow tune and start the truck up when it's cold it blue smokes a bit. Load a race tune and it goes away (higher injection pressure).

 

In the mornings its def a diesel smell, Its when I start to drive when it blows out more noticably. I ran it on the performance tune for a few min was still on the cold side and it seemed to push more white smoke out. Think I should leave it on perfromance for awhile? I put it back on street and it didnt do it as much and then quit after it got hot.

 

Test the FICM. Could just be an injector needing replacement. Start with the batteries and the FICM though, just to eliminate it. Then a cylinder contribution test would be a good idea.

 

K I will check those to start. What about the color of the coolant? I havent looked inside the actual degas but from the outside it looked kinda dark? I just popped the hood earlier to listen could just be me scaring myself but to mee it sounds like its tapping at idle.( I know hard to say that with a diesel but it sounds different I think.

 

Pop the cap and see what the coolant looks like... OEM is a gold color. Always hard to tell if there is a tick on these things haha. Start with the battery and FICM, they run A LOT smoother with those things in check...