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I believe you earlier posted a question about a smoky engine.
Burning oil produces a very distinctive blue-grey smoke often accompanied by a sort of burned eggs smell in advanced cases.
White smoke is either steam from an internal coolant leak or can be unburned fuel in some cases.
Dark grey - black smoke is invariably partly burned fuel. Engines produce black smoke when either there is a small excess of fuel entering the cylinders or the fuel is being delivered in a form that makes it impossible to burn completely - Poor injector spray patterns, for instance.
Lots of people reckon bad injectors have no effect on starting but in my experience they have a lot of effect. Push starting produces a higher piston speed that tends to overcome problems like bad injectors or low compression from worn valves, pistons, rings, bores, etc.
I suggest you remove the injectors for testing/overhaul and ensure the battery and starter are in absolutely top condition for a good cranking speed, also ensure the new glow plugs are receiving current and the relay is working OK.
Grey/black smoke is typically excess fuel (or insufficient air).
White smoke is invariably water that has turned to steam. (water is a natural product of combustion as well as the stuff the head gasket keeps out of the cylinder).
Sometimes an engine can emit a fine mist of unburned fuel that seems like white smoke.
Clearly your engine is burning some engine oil. Perhaps the valve stem oil seals are failing. When an engine noticably burns oil it must be realised this isn't good for the oxygen sensor and catalytic converter and it is inevitable the life of these things will be shortened.
It is doubtful the replacements you have so far carried out will have changed anything and it is likely to be coincidence the colour of the smoke has changed.
What is needed is a diagnostic check to inspect the live data from the sensors when it will probably be found one or both oxygen sensors will need replacing and perhaps other things have grown tired too - at an extended mileage an injector could start dribbling or the spray patterns be so poor the engine won't be able to burn it all and then it will be expelled into the exhaust.
Hi there:
Black smoke
is caused by excess fuel that has entered the cylinder area and cannot
be burned completely. Another term for excess fuel is "running
rich." Poor fuel mileage is also a common complaint when black
smoke comes out of the tailpipe. Black smoke out the tailpipe is the
least cause for alarm. Excess fuel will usually effect engine
performance, reduce fuel economy, and produce a fuel odor.
How did the fuel get into the cylinder in
the first place? Some of the causes of excess fuel are a carburetor that
is out of adjustment, a faulty fuel pump, a leaky fuel injector, or a
faulty engine computer or computer sensor. If black smoke is present,
check the engine oil as in the white smoke example to make sure excess
fuel has not contaminated it. Do not start the engine if a heavy, raw
fuel smell can be detected in the engine oil. Call your mechanic and
advise him of what you have found.
Hope this helps; also keep in mind that your feedback is important
and I`ll appreciate your time and consideration if you leave some
testimonial comment about this answer.
Hi there:
Black smoke
is caused by excess fuel that has entered the cylinder area and cannot
be burned completely. Another term for excess fuel is "running
rich." Poor fuel mileage is also a common complaint when black
smoke comes out of the tailpipe. Black smoke out the tailpipe is the
least cause for alarm. Excess fuel will usually effect engine
performance, reduce fuel economy, and produce a fuel odor.
How did the fuel get into the cylinder in
the first place? Some of the causes of excess fuel are a carburetor that
is out of adjustment, a faulty fuel pump, a leaky fuel injector, or a
faulty engine computer or computer sensor. If black smoke is present,
check the engine oil as in the white smoke example to make sure excess
fuel has not contaminated it. Do not start the engine if a heavy, raw
fuel smell can be detected in the engine oil. Call your mechanic and
advise him of what you have found.
Hope this helps; also keep in mind that your feedback is important
and I`ll appreciate your time and consideration if you leave some
testimonial comment about this answer.
Black smoke
is caused by excess fuel that has entered the cylinder area and cannot
be burned completely. Another term for excess fuel is "running
rich." Poor fuel mileage is also a common complaint when black
smoke comes out of the tailpipe. Black smoke out the tailpipe is the
least cause for alarm. Excess fuel will usually effect engine
performance, reduce fuel economy, and produce a fuel odor.
How did the fuel get into the cylinder in
the first place? Some of the causes of excess fuel are a carburetor that
is out of adjustment, a faulty fuel pump, a leaky fuel injector, or a
faulty engine computer or computer sensor. If black smoke is present,
check the engine oil as in the white smoke example to make sure excess
fuel has not contaminated it. Do not start the engine if a heavy, raw
fuel smell can be detected in the engine oil. Call your mechanic and
advise him of what you have found.
Hope this helps; also keep in mind that your feedback is important
and I`ll appreciate your time and consideration if you leave some
testimonial comment about this answer.
Hi there: Black smoke
is caused by excess fuel that has entered the cylinder area and cannot
be burned completely. Another term for excess fuel is "running
rich." Poor fuel mileage is also a common complaint when black
smoke comes out of the tailpipe. Black smoke out the tailpipe is the
least cause for alarm. Excess fuel will usually effect engine
performance, reduce fuel economy, and produce a fuel odor.
How did the fuel get into the cylinder in
the first place? Some of the causes of excess fuel are a carburetor that
is out of adjustment, a faulty fuel pump, a leaky fuel injector, or a
faulty engine computer or computer sensor. If black smoke is present,
check the engine oil as in the white smoke example to make sure excess
fuel has not contaminated it. Do not start the engine if a heavy, raw
fuel smell can be detected in the engine oil. Call your mechanic and
advise him of what you have found.
Hope this helps; also keep in mind that your feedback is important
and I`ll appreciate your time and consideration if you leave some
testimonial comment about this answer.
I would look more at your injector pump than the lift pump....Dodge does have a problem with there fuel delivery ( not enough consistent PSI ) which in turn takes out the injector pump mainly because the pump has be running to lean...So look at replacing your delivery pump with something 14PSI or greater, unfortunately sounds as though you will have to get your injector pump either replaced or rebuilt
Black smoke indicates no air, check your air filter, if you have done that and it is ok, check the PCV valve. Thats about all that I can suggest. Hope that helps.
You may have blown a cylinder head gasket... the white smoke typically indicates water in the combustion chamber and the loss of power fits with this also... If the car is difficult to turn over when you start it, this would be an indication as well.
fuel will turn after a while from setting sounds like might have set up on the float in the carberator and may have made the float heaver and not letting it close the fuel off when the float bowl gets full . Causing it to use more fuel would need to check the proper hight of the float
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