Truck's background: I've done STC fitting, oil cooler & screen, sinister egr delete, rebuilt FICM, and I'm (still) getting a diesel-smelling smoke from the exhaust.
The truck starts up in the morning usually clear or with a very small puff of blue/white smoke. Will sit and idle mostly clear for a few minutes. As soon as I start driving it, it smokes at stop signs/lights. Say I pull up to a light. It will usually be clear for a second, but then start lightly smoking the longer I sit at the light. If I'm at the light say 45 second to a minute, it blows one huge cloud of smoke, then runs clear. After the motor warms up significantly, it usually stops smoking at idle, and only lets one small puff of white/blue smoke when I pull away from the stop.
Standing at the tailpipe, it smells /strongly/ of diesel. Eye-watering strong. No oil smell or coolant smells at all. Truck has never used any coolant or oil... the EGR delete was my misguided (but in the end beneficial anyway) attempt at stopping the smoke as I thought the EGR cooler had a leak.
Otherwise, it runs just fine normally. Good power, decent mileage (getting around 17 in mixed driving). I /did/ notice pulling ~2000 lbs on labor day (trailer + 2 motorcycles), accelerating up a steep hill from 0-60mph, it felt... rough. Maybe a cylinder missing? If I'm driving it empty, and floor it, it accelerates well, but the extra load on the engine from towing up a hill, it struggled a bit.
So anyway, diagnosing this truck myself is becoming tiresome and I'd rather let someone else do it, especially as it probably means scanning injectors for codes, etc.
I'm in Mchenry County, IL and would gladly take the truck anywhere within an hour or so... Rockford, South Milwaukee, Janesville, Chicago (if I have to... hate driving into the city). Or my parent's have a place up near New Glarus, WI... I figure w/ all the farming and trucks up there, there's got to be some good techs. Any recommendations? I do not have a "throw money at it" kind of budget... I'm happy to pay diagnostic fees and fix a legitimate problem, though, so I can stop smoking out the folks behind me :( ... kinda embarrassing driving an otherwise beautiful truck that doubles as a mosquito fogger.
Appreciate any leads.
The truck starts up in the morning usually clear or with a very small puff of blue/white smoke. Will sit and idle mostly clear for a few minutes. As soon as I start driving it, it smokes at stop signs/lights. Say I pull up to a light. It will usually be clear for a second, but then start lightly smoking the longer I sit at the light. If I'm at the light say 45 second to a minute, it blows one huge cloud of smoke, then runs clear. After the motor warms up significantly, it usually stops smoking at idle, and only lets one small puff of white/blue smoke when I pull away from the stop.
Standing at the tailpipe, it smells /strongly/ of diesel. Eye-watering strong. No oil smell or coolant smells at all. Truck has never used any coolant or oil... the EGR delete was my misguided (but in the end beneficial anyway) attempt at stopping the smoke as I thought the EGR cooler had a leak.
Otherwise, it runs just fine normally. Good power, decent mileage (getting around 17 in mixed driving). I /did/ notice pulling ~2000 lbs on labor day (trailer + 2 motorcycles), accelerating up a steep hill from 0-60mph, it felt... rough. Maybe a cylinder missing? If I'm driving it empty, and floor it, it accelerates well, but the extra load on the engine from towing up a hill, it struggled a bit.
So anyway, diagnosing this truck myself is becoming tiresome and I'd rather let someone else do it, especially as it probably means scanning injectors for codes, etc.
I'm in Mchenry County, IL and would gladly take the truck anywhere within an hour or so... Rockford, South Milwaukee, Janesville, Chicago (if I have to... hate driving into the city). Or my parent's have a place up near New Glarus, WI... I figure w/ all the farming and trucks up there, there's got to be some good techs. Any recommendations? I do not have a "throw money at it" kind of budget... I'm happy to pay diagnostic fees and fix a legitimate problem, though, so I can stop smoking out the folks behind me :( ... kinda embarrassing driving an otherwise beautiful truck that doubles as a mosquito fogger.
Appreciate any leads.
