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truck is running great, one issue is whitish smoke from exhaust, heads were redone about 6 years ago and sitting in bags to protect, assembled all looked good. leaning towrds running a compression test and leak down test. maybe replacing or installing the umbrella seals on intakes and exhaust valves
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White smoke = water in the cylinders , but if there is antifreeze in the system you should detect a sweet smell. May just need new head gaskets , better than a cracked head or block, good luck.
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What transmission do you have? If it's an auto is it shifting properly? White smoke can come from ATF being sucked into the intake due to a bad vacuum modulator on the trans. You'll know for sure if the truck stops moving after enough ATF gets consumed.
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c6 freshly rebuilt with new modulator. I would of never thought of that, will crawl under tomorrow and pull vacumn line of modulator, if it is wet then ok, if not then onto further inspection with a leak down tester
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great idea, never thought of that one, I did check master before driving yesterday, looks like fluid level is holding, still havent gone out yet to pull vacumn line at trans
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Jeff
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Jeff
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just got done pulling vaccumn line at transmission modulator, bone dry, so maybe unbolt master ans pull out to see if back seal is leaking, then go do a leak down test. need to buy a cylinder leak down tester, anyone have input on whos to use and whos to stay away from as far as manufactures of leak down testers?
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