in the moring when i go to start the truck it just dumps white smoke but it will finally after cranking it for awhile and once it starts it runs fine any ideas?

 

glow plugs / relay

 

What he said, have you ever replaced glow plugs and the relay on your truck?? If not its time... or a good place to start

 

i just replaced the glow plugs in april, the strange thing is this first happend after i put a new valve cover gasket on the passenger side. I will start with a new relay and see what happens and also sometimes when i go to fire up the truck it wont start and the check engine light comes on while im cranking but ounce i turn the key off and try again it starts so any ideas on that???

Thank you

 

where do you live? it's june. you shouldn't be having cold start issues

 

maybe the connection in your valve cover gaskets are bad??

 

i live at 10000 ft in the mountains, it gets down to the low 40s and high 30s at night alot. But if the connection was bad wouldnt i be able to tell??? cuz to me it runs fine once it starts.

 

put a test light on the GPR. if that i fine then ohm. out the GP pins at the VC plugs.

 

I'm having kind of the same problem but here it's temps in the 70s and 80s. Takes a couple cranks to get going and runs rough for about 5 seconds before idling fine. Truck runs great afterwards and starts easy when warmed up. I would think it would fire right up when it's that warm outside. Let me know if you get it figured out.


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i went to start the truck today and it started fine this time but im still going to check the relay

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i went to start the truck this morning and it acted up and would not start on the first attempt but the second attempt worked and it fired right up but i heard a clicking sound so i popped the hood and put my hand on the GP relay and could feel it clicking and after about 30 seconds it stopped, is it suppost to be doing that?