I bought an 06 60 f350 about a month ago been great but noticed the coolent was low add some and then next day when truck was cold in the am loss of power and white smoke, then after work loss of power and white smoke and even stalled out, restarted good but with lots of white smoke and could not drive untill it warmed up at least a little bit as I finally started to move it came out of it the smoke went away and the power came back yet it seems to hesitate bad when taking off at a light
i think white smoke is water in the exhaust. EGR coolers fail on these and can cause this. are you stilll losing colant? i have read about testing this by parking on a slope with the front end lower and removing the EGR valve. think you need to wait over night or for a while and see if there is coolant in the opening. if there is the cooler has failed. if you searh for EGR cooler issues you will find a lot of discussion about them. I just installed an EGR delete to eliminate this issue all toghther.
yup i would say egr cooler... mine did the same thing when mine was going out it would smoke so much you couldnt see behind me for like a mile or so then stop and the power would come back and my egr cooler was ruptured. i would go ahead and delete it if you could cause a ruptured egr cooler and cause the head bolts to lift...
I just installed a dicad solutions kit on mine a couple weeks ago. it was half the price of other brands and was easy to install. here is there site "egr-delete-kit.com". it comes with everything you need.
Careful...that isn't always true.
Make sure that the egr cooler delete kit you purchase comes with the up-pipe. Some cheap ones do not, and to buy just an up-pipe will run you an extra 100-150 bucks.
Next, to just go ahead and delete an egr cooler is just begging for problems. There is a reason WHY the egr cooler failed, and that needs to be addressed first. That reason is the plugged coolant passages in the oil cooler. This plugging slwos the coolant flow to the EGR cooler, and the slower moving coolant allowed the egr cooler to overheat. The repeated overheating is what caused the egr cooler to fail.
Ignore this and your oil cooler can explode and fill your cooling system with oil.
Stop driving the truck if your egr cooler has failed, unless your bank account is large enough to absorb a full head gaskets repair job . The coolant leaking out of the egr cooler will enter the combustion chambers, where it is burned off and produces the white smoke you are seeing, however should you get enough coolant into the combustion chamber, the cylinder pressure will rise beyond what the stock head bolts can withstand and they will stretch. If they stretch, your head gaskets are gone.
thanks for all the info the dealership I got the truck from covered half the cost of replaceing the egr valve and the garage did a full check on the egr cooler and the oil cooler he said every thing checked out they even did a coolant system presure test and that was good no leaks.
now that all that has been done the truck is giving me light blue smoke until it warms up then that goes away this I understand is mostlikely an oil problem but the truck runs great and before the egr was replaced the smoke was only white no hint of blue
my question is does the turbo have to come off to replace the egr valve and if so should the garage have replaced the turbo seal at the same time?
now that all that has been done the truck is giving me light blue smoke until it warms up then that goes away this I understand is mostlikely an oil problem but the truck runs great and before the egr was replaced the smoke was only white no hint of blue.
dont think the turbo needs to come out. the egr valve is pretty easily accessed from on top of the motor. do you know if you have CCV reroute/delete on your truck? mine doesnt yet and i get a lot of oil through the intake. not sure if enough oil can get drawn into the combustion chabmer to cause this but when ever i pull it apart there is oil coating the inside of all the tubes/couplers.
ok I have checked the intake system and it was clean no oil residue at all
the garage that did the work told me to change the fuel filters and run fuel treetment through the system several times then change the filters again. He said the fuel system was slugged up and needs a good flush. I have now changed the filter on the motor I am hoping to wait until this weekend to change the filter on the frame just easier to do at a friends garage. also I have run a quart of fuel treatment mixed with only half a tank of fuel.
at this point no more smoke but the tempurature out side has warmed up a lot I will know if it smokes only when it is cold out in the morning.
Will I need any special tools to change the secound fuel filter?
thanks again for the help if the truck shows blue smoke in the morning when it is cold out I will post after I get out of work
yes the cetane boost is what I put in and it has anti-jel too went for a short ride and only got a quick burst of smoke when I stopped at the first stop light I came to, got the smoke after I stopped and no throttle at all before I could reach up and push the throttle the smoke was gone and did not come back as of yet. still I will watch in the morning to see what happens
thank you all for your input it has been very helpful
I'd like to bring this conversation back out of the cellar. I am chasing a similar smoke problem. If I am running a stock tune and it's somewhat cold outside, around 35F, the first start in the morning(7AM) and the first start in the afternoon(3PM) will blow blue smoke for a second or two and then kind of fizzle to nothing after a minute or so. My SRL tune blows NO blue smoke at start up in similar temperatures.
I turn my own wrenches and will be fixing anything up to the HG's as I can't get the cab off with my current garage situation and the time necessary for the job to be completed. It's worth it for me, in that situation, to have a shop do the work and have my truck back in a few days.
Truck history:
I still have the EGR cooler.
EGR cooler and oil cooler were replaced at approx 100K.
Delta is quite low, around 5.
Truck currently has 212K miles on it.
A few injectors have been replaced over it's lifetime( somewhere around 117K)
I am currently running T6, but have no idea what the PO ran.
I have a surging issue when cold that goes away as the ECT get up above 130 or so.
2 doses of Rev-X have helped IMMENSLY with the surging, it's still there but nowhere near as bad.
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