I hadn't driven my truck for about two weeks other than moving it around in the driveway, shuffling my trailer around (maybe relevant, maybe not?). I loaded up my jeep on the trailer (~6000 lb total) and left for an off-roading trip after idling until EOT and ECT were both over 100°F. The truck was great for the almost the whole 4 mile trip to meet up with a friend before the 100 mile trip to Rausch Creek.

At the last intersection before his neighborhood, I went 100% accelerator pedal up to ~45mph. I slowed down and made the turn into the neighborhood, and as I eased onto the go-pedal, I had pretty much nothing. It didn't want to get off idle. I got to his house and was blowing white smoke out the exhaust. I started looking through Torque Pro to see what I could see, and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, but I could have missed something. It was making lots of white smoke out the tailpipe at that point, idling.

I took it for a lap around the block, and within a couple hundred feet, everything cleared up and the truck ran normally. I then used it as intended to haul my jeep 200 miles round trip flawlessly.

So what could have caused this? Is there anything I should look at, or is this just one of those flukes that happens sometimes if you don't work the engine often enough?

 

did you get a wif of the smoke? sweet smelling , maybe stuck unison ring on the turbo , has it done it since then?

 

I didn't get a whiff of it at all. Does this sound like a turbo cleaning might be due, or should I just ignore it unless it happens again?

 

that's your call , I would at least take the truck for another road check with a load, with how much you use the truck and not for a DD , your going to have to drive it a little more to keep things oiled up, I would also use a fuel additive if you don't already. Monitor MAP,BARO, EBP, VGT