When I went to start my tuck this morning I noticed a little cloud of blue-ish white smoke as I pulled away. It immediately stopped as soon as I left the driveway though. My truck has 77k miles and has always been maintained as far as oil changes go. I've used Mobil 1 since 26k and driven the truck hard. Does this smoke mean anything or am I just worrying about nothing?
Thanks,
Ziess
I wouldn't worry to much
But blue is oil
Might be the valve stem seals leaking a little
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Lariat rims w/285/75 BF Goodrich TA KO's
and Western 8' poly pro plow
I agree with Manx, probably the valve stem seals like the one that I had on my old Chebby. Every morning like clock work big blue puff of smoke would fill the air for about a minute or so but then it would clear up the rest of the day. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smokin.gif[/img]
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[img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shrug.gif[/img]My 2002 did that one time that I noticed. Another guy I know has a 2001 that I seen do it once or twice. I don't think it's anything to worry about. Mine dosen't use a drop of oil,unlike my buddies chevy 8.1.
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The time before you started it and got the smoke, did you do something like start it, move it to another spot on the driveway and shut it down without it reaching operating temp? Mine will blow a white colored smoke everytime I do that sequence (wife needs to get her car out of the garage). I was told that it was either raw fuel that was in the heads on shutdown or possibly an excess of moisture from starting it and stopping before there was enough heat to evaporate it. Has done it for 50k and hasn't effected performance at all. Still runs like a top.
sounds like the short distance you moved, it probally did not heat up enough to clean oil by-pass that will occur on cold start-up after
sitting even over night. would't worry unless problem gets worse.
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