Code # 6 injector bad terrible smoke??
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Code # 6 injector bad terrible smoke??
Hello and thanks for any input. I was coming into town tonight and stopped at a light and I noticed a lot of smoke coming out the exhaust. It smells like pure diesel fuel. I took it to our local diesel mechanic and he hooked it up to the scanner and got a code that the #6 injector was faulty, but he thought considering all the smoke a head gasket might be bad as well. The truck only has 80,000 miles and is covered under warranty but our local ford store likes to take their time and I would probably be without a truck for a couple weeks. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need the truck for work!!!
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That right there sounds like a leaking injector. Was the code a cylinder #6 contribution/balance code? You might still have headgasket issues, but you don't get a diesel smell with that. At idle was it just smoking plumes of white smoke and then started to dissipate as you drove(or atleast looked like it was)? A leaking injector though will cause a lot of smoke, I mean a lot of smoke.
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as far as the smoke color I think it was white, (night time could not really tell but looked white) I will know more this morning when I start it up. Looked like a fog bank moving in behind the truck. Code issue, all I was told was that I had a faulty # 6 injector. Smoke was about the same I think running down the road. Truck has a miss just like its running on seven cylinders.
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hopefully they get you in and on the road...IDK what part of MT you are in, but Laurel Ford took care of us as my wife was travelling through..
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Don't let them do head gasket. You aren't burning oil or losing coolant, plus the smoke smelled of raw fuel. That is all the info you need to diagnose a fueling problem. The code for the #6 cylinder just told you which one. You're all set.
If I were you, I wouldn't drive it. If it's dumping that much fuel into one cylinder, you could destroy that piston in no time.
If I were you, I wouldn't drive it. If it's dumping that much fuel into one cylinder, you could destroy that piston in no time.
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got the info from the shop this afternoon... #6 injector was bad and I should have the truck back by monday afternoon. they already started tearing it apart so it wont be going anywhere untill its fixed. They asked me if I wanted to drive it this weekend but I knew better than to drive a 1/2 busted truck. no sence ruining anything more.. Thanks for all your input.. Its nice to have a place to go and find out information before ya take it to the shop.
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In glendive, about 250 miles east of laurel...
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well got the truck back.. All they had to do was replace the injector. Total cost for the job was $517.00, good thing for warranty. Now I can go back to work... One question tho, should I be concerned about changing the oil with all the fuel that went into that cylinder? The oil only had about 600 miles on it.
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well got the truck back.. All they had to do was replace the injector. Total cost for the job was $517.00, good thing for warranty. Now I can go back to work... One question tho, should I be concerned about changing the oil with all the fuel that went into that cylinder? The oil only had about 600 miles on it.