Poor Performance & White-Gray Smoke

Poor Performance & White-Gray Smoke

01-04-2008, 12:17 AM

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BTanzini

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Poor Performance & White-Gray Smoke

Here we go-I have had problems with the performance of my truck for a while now and when I did a valve adjustment about 2 months ago the truck run fine started better, but now I am noticing a white-gray residue build up on the conner of the bumper directly behind the exhaust pipe and the truck is running like crap. On my way back from town today I thought I might have developed a bad head gasket, my RPM seem to be higher then they should be and it feels like my power has dropped off. I replaced the overflow valve about 4000 mi ago. Any suggestions from anyone shot of getting reed of it? Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I just recently reconnected the pre-heater filter because when it was cold 30 degrees out (thats cold here in central Texas) and I started the truck with a little pedal it would blow all kinds of smoke, white, blue, gray and tend to want to stall out.

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1996-2500 Red Ram SLT Extended cab, Cummins 5.9,4x2,Auto,3:54 Gears, Pillar Mount EGT, Boost & Tranny Temp,TST #11 Plate,Ride Right Air Shocks, Aux Primary Fuel Filter, Hi top Bed Canopy, 173,300 Mi.

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