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Old 05-16-2012, 04:41 PM
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If my truck was to smoke a little bit since it doesn't have a muffler or a cat on it. Thanks
 
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Old 05-16-2012, 06:48 PM
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black white blue pink purple, what color and how much are we talkin? any mods?

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Old 05-16-2012, 06:56 PM
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No mods...black mainly little white at times...it's just a faint smoke not real heavy.
 
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Old 05-16-2012, 07:10 PM
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well the black id say norm if you stop the pedal quick, the white might just be unburnt diesel if your on original or old injectors, u dont lose oil inbetween changes do you?
 
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Old 05-16-2012, 07:27 PM
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no never lose oil. yea id say it needs new injectors has 548 thou some odd miles on it
 
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Old 05-16-2012, 07:33 PM
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no never lose oil. yea id say it needs new injectors has 548 thou some odd miles on it
Shew Id recon. Still strokin though! Black shows up a little better with no muff though all seems well.
 
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ya thats prob your lighter smoke...
 
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Old 05-16-2012, 07:40 PM
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all is good with truck runs cool good oil pres. all the time has good power only prob with the truck i cant seem to fig out (havent looked into it to hard cause just started yesterday) is it kinda has a rough idle shakes kinda when im at a light or something... any thoughts on that?
 
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possibly CPS trouble mine did it constantly until I changed it. Have you ever had it replaced? Has it started randomly dying? CPS is a very common and fairly cheap problem
 
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Old 05-16-2012, 07:46 PM
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i havent replaced it no when i put on the windshield wipers on itll stall for a sec or sometimes die when its raining
 


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