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Old Feb 4, 2019 | 07:30 AM
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Blue gray smoke

Woke up in Indiana with smoke out my exhaust. Was running fine when I stopped. Starts and idles smooth. What's about to blow?
 
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Old Feb 4, 2019 | 10:38 AM
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Well I lucked out this time. It was just fuel filters. I actually had planned on changing them yesterday and ran out of time. I had planned on doing maintenance when I got back to Texas, but my trip got extended. Still, I only had about 7,000 miles since my last Mike Pence. I think I got some crappy gas up here. Anyway I just tried fuel filters first and that immediately sounded all the smoke went away and it rides just fine again
 
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Old Feb 4, 2019 | 11:11 AM
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Uhh, hopefully you can go more than 7k before your next Mike Pence this time

Glad it turned out to be a simple fix, sounds like it must’ve been bad fuel
 
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I misstated. I, of course, only change fuel filters every other oil change. So this one failed with about 12,000 miles. I change fluids the first chance I get after 5000.

I was surprised how much smoke was coming out to have just been the filter. Had no real expectation the filter would fix it, but wanted to eliminate that possibility.
 
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