Does the winter affect anyone else's truck smoke? Myne seems to smoke alot more until the engine gets to about 140+ degrees. And what color is everyone's smoke this winter? Whitish grey by chance?

 

when mine is on cold idle/advance it will have a constant whitish smoke. goes right away when the idle/advance kicks down. nothing wrong with that. i don't get any smoke when it is warm out. i would say you are just fine!

 

Mine smokes a hazy grey/brown with white in there as well.

 

The last couple of times I drove the van before storing it, it was really cold and it would moke a grayish/blue smoke to it. My 7.3 also did the same thing in winter on top of the normal white steam.



I think it's do to the furnace oil they add to the fuel to keep it from gelling.

 

mine would have snow blown in the radiator from sitting for months, well one time it was pretty cold out maybe 0f or -5f or so and i took it for a drive, was city street driving, for about a hour, well all of a sudden all this white smoke steam like stuff started comming from the front of my truck i thought i sprung a radiator leak, well it was just the thermostate finally opening and letting the coolant go into the radiator and that melted the snow off it into steam, had me worried tell i figured out what it was! hehe

 

Hey John, didn't you have a pedovan as well, what happened to that?

 

Still have it, stored for winter. Gotta keep it out of salt


I'm actually really glad I parked it for winter in favor of my 4x4 F150, with all this snow we been getting, the van wouldn't have been much fun in plowing through snow banks and going in small unplowed roads