I'd pick up a Chilton or Haynes service manual for you truck. Not that expensive and you get photos, diagrams, and professionally written step by step instructions, as well as diagnostic advice. The forum can still be helpful, but sometimes its easier to look in a book than post online and hope someone who knows what their talking about sees your post and responds.

 

Sounds like bad rings for a long time!

 

I hope its just injectors or cups, id love to just throw some stage 2s in the truck and be done with it. since 220k Its always been hard to start unless plugged in, and recently barley started even plugged in. I just found it wierd that i let it sit a couple months then start it up, and know its pouring white smoke really really heavy hickuping and missing when i step on the gas. But when i put it in the high performance setting on the chip and only in this setting it idles fine with barley any white smoke.

Oh also when i took it in before i parked it for those 2 months I had to turn the overdrive off to get power to make it to the shop, and it was consuming alot of fuel way more then usual and the engine seemed louder the normal.

Thanks for the input so far, I have the book but I know asking questions on this site has saved me alot of money more then a couple times. And is always very helpful in learning little tricks.

 

So today i started the truck and fliped the oil cap upside down just vibrated off. Its not puffing smoke but there is some smoke. so i took off the valve covers, went to oriely to get a compresion tester and they did not have one .I called a deisel mechanic and asked him what he would charge me to do a compresion test. He replied and said that he would love to take my money but he thinks my compresion is fine based on the cap test and believes from the symtoms I explained its an injector issue. What do yall think i should do.

 

I agree, sounds like a set of worn injectors. I would still like to see a compression check just to get a base line.

 

Well hade a ford mechanic come to do compression test and told me I was in the 280s on most cylinders and 350 and 325 on other 2.

 

280 is pretty damn low... Was the motor cold? Did you try putting a little oil in the cylinders to see if the numbers would come up?

 

A turbo will make white smoke as well. Just throwing that out there.

 

ya it was cold,and no he didnt put oil in. 280 is low especialy for most of the cylinders being at that I was really suprised when he told me. know I am trying to find a motor.

 

I would grab injectors and cups and a full o-ring kit.... if after that it dont run right..... then go further... you will probabably find ur problem along the way..... like an injector thats fouled up .... or just real carboned up