Rough idle and smoke at idle after fuel filter change

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I changed the fuel filters on my truck yesterday and also removed the cover on the water separator to clean out the drain area. I cycled the key 8 times to let it purge the air. It seemed to run fine yesterday with no smoke but today I started it and it is idling rough and I'm getting smoke out the exhaust. Also when I put it in drive the injectors are making more noise then normal. I did load a towing tune on it today before startup so I'm hoping reloading the tune will do the trick. Do you think there could be air in the system still?
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I'm running the crappy canned sct tunes and my dpf is deleted
 

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Yeah they both went in like they are supposed to. I did find a piece of black plastic and what looked like some very fine metal in the fuel bowl when I removed the old filter. I got the plastic bit out before I put the new filter in. I don't like where this is going, I just bought this truck 2 months ago.

Loaded a different tune, same thing still happening
 

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I drove the truck around being real easy on it and it seems to be back to normal now. Idles right and no more smoke. Beats me :shrug: my best guess is there may have been a little air in the system. I'm still learning about the 6.4 so if anybody has a theory I'm all ears.
 

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