Puking white smoke... EGR COOLER?

[STORMTROOPIN]

Originally Posted by GR4Y

could be your injector #8 my friend was pourin white smoke and it was the injector #8.

which cylinder is the number 8 on these trucks? where do you glow plugs go into the head also?

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you need to put a manual guage on the secondary filter port. There is an adapter you have to buy.

[STORMTROOPIN]

which filter port are you talking about.

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cylinder 8 is the driver side rear. The glow plugs are in the rocker boxes right below the valve covers. you can see the black wiring for them right above the exhaust manifolds.
the secondary filter is the little fuel filter next to the oil filter housing in the center top of of the engine right behind the fan. There is a small allen head plug on the housing. You can remove that plug, install the adapter and then connect fuel pressure guage.

[STORMTROOPIN]

ive been told that if you pull the glow plugs and if you find fuel or moisture on them you could have an injector problem, there is quite a bit of oil coming from around the #8 glow plug.... dunno.

when im checking the fuel pressure what things should i be looking for and what is a good normal operating presure?

[STORMTROOPIN]

i was also reading an article in diesel world, they had mentioned that stiction or dirty or the wrong oil can cause the truck to miss or smoke... ? What about the spool valves would sticking valves cause the truck to miss or smoke?

[STORMTROOPIN]

swung by autozone today and used one of ther scan tools. Pulled no codes.... would i have better luck taking it to ford and geting it scaned. Ive been told that the scanners at autozone and advanced only scan for active codes....?

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Originally Posted by STORMTROOPIN

i was also reading an article in diesel world, they had mentioned that stiction or dirty or the wrong oil can cause the truck to miss or smoke... ? What about the spool valves would sticking valves cause the truck to miss or smoke?

yes, there is an entire article about stiction on the alliant power website.

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Originally Posted by STORMTROOPIN

ive been told that if you pull the glow plugs and if you find fuel or moisture on them you could have an injector problem, there is quite a bit of oil coming from around the #8 glow plug.... dunno.

when im checking the fuel pressure what things should i be looking for and what is a good normal operating presure?

typically if you see oil around the glow plug harnness, it's usually the orings on the harness, or the harness plugs themselves leaking.

if you pull a glow plug and it's wet with coolant, then most likely the glow plug sleeve is leaking. that requires a bit of work to replace.

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Originally Posted by STORMTROOPIN

swung by autozone today and used one of ther scan tools. Pulled no codes.... would i have better luck taking it to ford and geting it scaned. Ive been told that the scanners at autozone and advanced only scan for active codes....?

most of the simple scanners will only pull current codes.