SMOKES LIKE CRAZY when cold
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SMOKES LIKE CRAZY when cold
I have a 94, F-350, 7.3 turbo diesel. This baby can keep mosquitos away in the entire county when i forst start it. It continues to smoke with a slightly rough idle which must be held at about 1300 - 1500 RPM so as not to stall until warmed up. Once warm the idle is okay and the smoke diminishes substantially but is always there slightly. If I shut it off when restarted (even warm) it smokes like crazy butnot quite as bad and not quite as long as when cold. The truck has 78K miles. It has never been rebuilt or touched other than normal oil/filter changes. It gets driven about 3000 mi/yr ad is pretty rusty so I cannot justify spending a lot of money for major repairs. Anyone out there wih an idea as to the ptential problem or problems that my work truck has? Any advice on a low budget fix?
Thanks much! CopterRider
Thanks much! CopterRider
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Thanks for the info sosotwo.
I imagine seals is not too expensive but what a pain on this old truck with too much plumbing all over it.
If it is a valve guide issue then pulling the heads is an even worse project that I really don't feellike tackling. The seals would accont for the smoke and I suppose bad guides could account for the poor low speed idle when cold (thus likley it is both).
Any idea as to a "ballpark" cost of each if i sent it out rather than did it myself?
I imagine seals is not too expensive but what a pain on this old truck with too much plumbing all over it.
If it is a valve guide issue then pulling the heads is an even worse project that I really don't feellike tackling. The seals would accont for the smoke and I suppose bad guides could account for the poor low speed idle when cold (thus likley it is both).
Any idea as to a "ballpark" cost of each if i sent it out rather than did it myself?
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Starmilt, the smoke is blue (so likely it is oil). Blue and thick and huge cloud when cold then less and less after about three to five minutes until it is hot then a very slight but steady small amount of blue nearly always butso slight that at cruising speeds it is imperceptable.
