Hello guys! I'm in need of some help (depending on if you ask the wife or not what kind of help I need..lol). I figured this will be one of three things, but I'll tell you what happened and let me know what you think. I'll try to shorten it up. Little background on the vehicle....2005 Excursion, 6.0, afe stage 2 intake, and rebuilt ficm from Ed with an atlas 40 program.
Bout a month and a half ago, we were coming home from family's place two hours away. Now mind you, we had no issues before this. When we stopped at a light, we felt a little surge and a little rough of an idle. My wife asked what that was and I just figured it was dirty injectors and that I'd clean them and we'd be good. So the next day, I picked up some BG244 poured it in and then filled the tank. BTW a little background......usually at every fill up I put in either the white or gray diesel keen/power service additive depending on time of year...
Bout 10 miles into drive, idle smoothed out BUT, I started getting a little white billowing smoke coming from pipe. Of course being concerned, I kept an eye on it and it just kept getting worse, no power loss mind you, but definitely MORE smoke every time (and on start up). With no power loss, I figured it was just burning out the crap that was gunked in there. WELL...........the last time I really drove it (before parking it til i figure it out) it started knocking on the passenger side and SMOKE like a freight train (seriously people behind me were pulling over and I was just hoping to get home without a ticket and a tow bill), but I finally made it home. It's been sitting or just moved ever since. I have had a couple of egr codes come up a while ago, but I just thought that it was just carbon build up and I just pulled the valve and replace rings/washer and clean it.
Thoughts? You know the knock isn't a rod or bearing issues I don't think because when I would step on the gas, the knocking would settle down and go away. Which kinda lead me to think that it was an injector/s. Especially with using the 244, I was thinking that it finally cleaned the gunked up injector/s enough that it just went south. But after talking to Ed at FICMrepair.com, he mentioned err/oil cooler failures possibly.....UGH! So i used my scanner and got not a single code to come up! Very frustrating! So what next? What do you guys think? I planned on (since the motor was going to be opened up anyway) changing out the stc fitting, blue spring kit, and new plugs.
Any guidance would be great! I really appreciate it!
Oh yeah.....another note....the smoke doesn't smell sweet and isn't bluish. It's thick white/grey and smells like the exhaust of a bobcat or backhoe if you know what I mean. Although, when I just moved it to the side of the house to work on it there cause its flat, getting it over the curb I had to gun it and it spewed thick grey/black smoke. Checked degas bottle and coolant level is full with no residue and engine has no real signs of hydrolocking. Like I said???????????????????????
Thanks again all!
Bout a month and a half ago, we were coming home from family's place two hours away. Now mind you, we had no issues before this. When we stopped at a light, we felt a little surge and a little rough of an idle. My wife asked what that was and I just figured it was dirty injectors and that I'd clean them and we'd be good. So the next day, I picked up some BG244 poured it in and then filled the tank. BTW a little background......usually at every fill up I put in either the white or gray diesel keen/power service additive depending on time of year...
Bout 10 miles into drive, idle smoothed out BUT, I started getting a little white billowing smoke coming from pipe. Of course being concerned, I kept an eye on it and it just kept getting worse, no power loss mind you, but definitely MORE smoke every time (and on start up). With no power loss, I figured it was just burning out the crap that was gunked in there. WELL...........the last time I really drove it (before parking it til i figure it out) it started knocking on the passenger side and SMOKE like a freight train (seriously people behind me were pulling over and I was just hoping to get home without a ticket and a tow bill), but I finally made it home. It's been sitting or just moved ever since. I have had a couple of egr codes come up a while ago, but I just thought that it was just carbon build up and I just pulled the valve and replace rings/washer and clean it.
Thoughts? You know the knock isn't a rod or bearing issues I don't think because when I would step on the gas, the knocking would settle down and go away. Which kinda lead me to think that it was an injector/s. Especially with using the 244, I was thinking that it finally cleaned the gunked up injector/s enough that it just went south. But after talking to Ed at FICMrepair.com, he mentioned err/oil cooler failures possibly.....UGH! So i used my scanner and got not a single code to come up! Very frustrating! So what next? What do you guys think? I planned on (since the motor was going to be opened up anyway) changing out the stc fitting, blue spring kit, and new plugs.
Any guidance would be great! I really appreciate it!
Oh yeah.....another note....the smoke doesn't smell sweet and isn't bluish. It's thick white/grey and smells like the exhaust of a bobcat or backhoe if you know what I mean. Although, when I just moved it to the side of the house to work on it there cause its flat, getting it over the curb I had to gun it and it spewed thick grey/black smoke. Checked degas bottle and coolant level is full with no residue and engine has no real signs of hydrolocking. Like I said???????????????????????
Thanks again all!
