cold idle smoke

[thenubsterman]

Hey everyone i think i found why our trucks smoke when their at a cold idle. Well sense i had my heads off doing head gaskets i would figure i'd have my heads checked out. Well ALL of my valve guides are out of spec. So its gettting 32 valve gides and oh ya a valve job, and uhh new valve seals lol. boy is it getting expensive and i'm doing it myself.

[Galaxie]

How many miles do your heads have? Is the valve geometry on our trucks off?

[thenubsterman]

170,000 soo really not THAT many. Its an early 04. as far as valve geometry i could not tell you sorry about that. I just thought it was interesting when i found out all my valve guides were bad, and it would make sense why it smokes things get tighter when it warms up

[Galaxie]

Yea, at 170 they should be golden stil unelss something was off or they are just not good.


I ate some up when I used junk roller rockers on a SBF.

Thanks man!

[thenubsterman]

ya i would hope that internationals geometry is good. I guess just gives us another thing to look at when we do heads