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Old Sep 30, 2023 | 07:50 PM
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7.3 white smoke

Hey, so I just did my injector o rings and it started up like it usually does. I’ve put about 10 miles on her but she’s been pushing excessive white smoke out. I did a little test by pulling the uvch connectors one at a time (the side that controls 2, not the individual ones). When I pulled the front passenger one the white smoke completely disappeared. Is this a bad injector? Or did I bust a ring or roll it? I was thinking that if it was just a ring then unplugging it wouldn’t change anything.
 
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Old Sep 30, 2023 | 07:57 PM
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Go drive it 50 miles or more, and push it. Then post back, you can get a lot of oil in the exhaust system when doing injectors and need to burn it out
 
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Originally Posted by helifixer
Go drive it 50 miles or more, and push it. Then post back, you can get a lot of oil in the exhaust system when doing injectors and need to burn it out
that’s what I thought but I just tried driving it with the front passenger uvch unplugged and it ran normalish and zero white smoke. So I know there is something wrong with one or both of those two injectors. When I plugged it back in it started spewing white again. Iv
 
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Old Sep 30, 2023 | 11:07 PM
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Were they/it the injector/s that were removed first? If so like Helifixer just posted got to drive it more to burn all the oil and fuel out.

Also a missing coper washer on an injector can cause the smoke
 
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Old Sep 30, 2023 | 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by z31freakify
Were they/it the injector/s that were removed first? If so like Helifixer just posted got to drive it more to burn all the oil and fuel out.

Also a missing coper washer on an injector can cause the smoke
I’ll check the washer, they were not the first, I vacuumed them out immediately after pulling as well. I’ve done a few injectors jobs and have never had this much smoke so I’ll check for the copper washer.
 
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