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Truck has blue smoke from exhaust, runs ruff, idles with slight misfire, poor acceleration, oil leaking from EGR valve. Starts up with no problem.
Truck is a 2004 Ram Laramie 1500 5.7 hemi,
Compression test might help , as well as change spark plugs an wires and coil packs , pcv valve needs replaced as well as egr valve or at least gasket , If its been awhile since a good tuneup these things would help maybe even clean throttle body ,,scan for any codes even stored codes if no engine light
Last edited by 72rtchallenger; 04-24-2019 at 06:37 PM.