Smoking from takeoff

superdutyman97 · Oct 7, 2012

I just bought this truck about a month ago, put a 4 inch downpipe back exhaust on it yesterday and now it's blowing grayish blue smoke at takeoff. Never smoked a bit before the exhaust. Could it just be burning crap out of the downpipe as I done away with the resonator with the exhaust install. Or should I be lookin for something more serious. It runs perfect and I just put 2 bottles of rev x through it about 1500 miles ago. It's only got 63k miles on it and is bone stock other than the exhaust. Any help would be great.

superdutyman97 · Oct 7, 2012

CCRICE · Oct 7, 2012

Maybe your egr cooler is going south.. Have you tried cleaning the egr valve to see if that helps?

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superdutyman97 · Oct 7, 2012

Not yet, I'm new to te 6.0 so I'm still learning as I go. How hard is the valve to clean?

CCRICE · Oct 7, 2012

Valve is very easy to clean. Just two bolts and some finagling to get it out.

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superdutyman97 · Oct 8, 2012

Awesome, sounds like a good place to start. Thanks

FX4 F2-Fifty · Oct 8, 2012

Easy way to get it out. For the "tool" pictured I used a welding rod, to pry just put a 2x4 on the cowl and pry with a broomstick or metal rod etc.

Edit: forgot pic
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HOOV3R · Oct 8, 2012

Mini indexing prybar FTW. That looks like something I would draw LOL.

superdutyman97 · Oct 8, 2012

Very helpful, I'm going to pull it out this weekend and clean it up and see why happens. Also going to check my injectors and see what I come up with.

06_Whitebull · Oct 8, 2012

FX4 F2-Fifty said:

Mad CAD skilz there.LOL

FX4 F2-Fifty · Oct 8, 2012

06_Whitebull said:
Mad CAD skilz there.LOL

Thanks! These engineering classes are finally paying off. LOL

CCRICE · Oct 8, 2012

Other thing is how fresh is the oil? I know my buddies was smoking white, we cleaned his valve and he changed his oil and it quit doing it..

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superdutyman97 · Oct 8, 2012

Just changed it right after I got it. Probably has 1500 miles on the oil change and rev x

CCRICE · Oct 8, 2012

What kind of oil?

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superdutyman97 · Oct 8, 2012

Rotella synthetic blend 10w30 with a motor craft filter

Chucky1313 · Oct 18, 2012

Mines did the same thing I did the egr delete still smoked ended up being the seals in the turbo

Fromojo · Oct 18, 2012

After dealing with a friends 6.0L with a white smoke issue, you will have to answer the question of; Does the white smoke vaporize pretty quick or does it linger around?

Go away quick = Water, linger = Oil or fuel

I'm far from an expert, but we pulled the EGR Valve and it was as dry as anything besides the accumulation of soot for the past 9 years.

superdutyman97 · Oct 18, 2012

Chucky1313 said:
Mines did the same thing I did the egr delete still smoked ended up being the seals in the turbo

We pulled the codes and it's an exhaust back pressure code as of right now. I just have to determine what's making it do so now

superdutyman97 · Oct 18, 2012

Fromojo said:
After dealing with a friends 6.0L with a white smoke issue, you will have to answer the question of; Does the white smoke vaporize pretty quick or does it linger around?

Go away quick = Water, linger = Oil or fuel

I'm far from an expert, but we pulled the EGR Valve and it was as dry as anything besides the accumulation of soot for the past 9 years.

It lingers around, I ruled out water vapor immediately. Ive been tinkering around and have traced it back to a sensor for the exhaust back pressure as of right now