Ok, so I drove my truck up to college the sunday before last to unload all of my stuff. (3 hr drive) and then I drove it home last thursday (another 3 hour drive). The whole time the truck seemed fine. I drove the truck around friday around my area and had no problems. The problem beings Saturday Morning. I go outside to start my truck. Get in, turn key. STUMBLE to the max! and a cloud of smoke out the exhaust pipe. Truck ran fine afterwords. Truck still seemed to stumble on some starts, but not on others. I figured it was a fluke, so... I dismissed it. I went out to start this morn again and it stumbles, and the cloud follows. It seemed like there was less smoke today than yesterday, but figured i'd see where to look for the problem. Engine isn't throwing a code. I ran a bottle of shell v-power cleaner through the engine 2 weeks ago. Is it really possible that my injectors are leaking that bad, or is it worse? The problem only seems to happen when starting the truck after sitting overnight.

Thanks guys!

 

white smoke is usually indicative of coolant/water in the combustion chamber.

It's possible you have a head crack in the water jacket and are leaking into the combustion chamber.

 

stop smoking the pot before you close it up at night and the white smoke won't puff out when you get in. in the morning.


Oh no head crack I'll know what to do to help ya out on that lol

 

check you oil for coolant in it. Milky color. Sounds like you have a crack in your head, or a head gasket thats fixin to let go, if it already hasnt all the way. white smoke in the exhaust is coolant burning

 

That would probably explain why my truck has been running hotter this year? lol. I changed the coolant since it hasn't been changed from factory that I know of. Surprisingly enough, it looked decent. I changed it about a month ago and there were no signs of oil in the coolant when i did it. I will check for the coolant in the oil tomorrow morn as suggested. I just changed the oil 1000miles ago so if its hard to tell, I will definately pay attention for my next oil change. Not exactly what I wanted to hear but thanks guys for the help.

 

Went out to check this morn. She stumbled like the past two days, but a considerably less amount of smoke. Honestly, I couldn't smell a "sweet smell" from my exhaust. The oil is at the same level it was when I changed it (max on hash marks) 1000 ago, and there was no coolant in the oil that I can tell. Coolant level was low. I never kept the resevoir that filled to begin with but there was some in there. And after opening the cap, It only needed like 2 shots of antifreeze to top off. I let her run and some water came out of the exhaust. Haha now that I think about it, that has to be hell on a catalytic converter lol. Lets play this out for a minute. It may have been coincidental that the coolant could have been low considering I changed the coolant a month ago and the air finally worked itself out on those 3hr rides up and back. Is it possible that I got a bad batch of water'y gas?