Bigskyroadglide
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- Hemi 5.7, supercharged
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Looking for collective input here as got a weird one, at least to me. Truck is 2014 5.7 RWD, RT, 80k miles, supercharged, tuned by FRP, wrapped ARH headers, AFR gauge and boost gauge. AFR is showing14.6 to 14.7 at idle and varies up and down based on throttle input. Purchased truck at 41k.
Tuesday afternoon stopped at car wash to hose off the truck from the weekend. Drove a little over 800 miles sat and sun so lots of bugs and road grime.
Car wash is the type that shoots water up underneath to wash off road salt etc.
So this am, start Truck, get a large puff of smoke on startup which is weird as truck does not smoke ever. I thought ok, that's weird and thought nothing else of it as when I parked at work, truck had performed as expected on drive in some 20 miles with no issues. As in, no unusual lights on dash, no codes, normal coolant, oil and Trans temp and normal oil pressure.
Came out end of day, walk behind truck. Remote start and get a puff of whiteish smoke from both tailpipes. Immediately my thoughts are, head gasket or something related. Drove home some 20 miles thinking I'm going to have milkshake oil when I check. Again, no codes, no issues, normal operations Temps and pressure.
Check oil, full as normal, has 4k on oil change, red line 5W30. No milkshake. Ok no water in oil, let's check for oil in water. No oil in coolant. Check catch can, think maybe it's full. Nope, half full consistent with 4 k on oil change. It gets emptied every change. Check intercooler no oil in that antifreeze. Check air filter not wet, dry as normal.
So I'm drawing a blank. Not leaking water or oil, everything is normal per my experience over 2 years I've owned truck and my only other thought is to purchase one of those exhaust gas test to see if exhaust gas are getting into cooling system. Unless. And this is a guess, Water could have somehow gotten past the header collector and into the head pipe?
Looking for thoughts ideas or comments. Tagging @Wild one due to his engine experience.
Looking for collective input here as got a weird one, at least to me. Truck is 2014 5.7 RWD, RT, 80k miles, supercharged, tuned by FRP, wrapped ARH headers, AFR gauge and boost gauge. AFR is showing14.6 to 14.7 at idle and varies up and down based on throttle input. Purchased truck at 41k.
Tuesday afternoon stopped at car wash to hose off the truck from the weekend. Drove a little over 800 miles sat and sun so lots of bugs and road grime.
Car wash is the type that shoots water up underneath to wash off road salt etc.
So this am, start Truck, get a large puff of smoke on startup which is weird as truck does not smoke ever. I thought ok, that's weird and thought nothing else of it as when I parked at work, truck had performed as expected on drive in some 20 miles with no issues. As in, no unusual lights on dash, no codes, normal coolant, oil and Trans temp and normal oil pressure.
Came out end of day, walk behind truck. Remote start and get a puff of whiteish smoke from both tailpipes. Immediately my thoughts are, head gasket or something related. Drove home some 20 miles thinking I'm going to have milkshake oil when I check. Again, no codes, no issues, normal operations Temps and pressure.
Check oil, full as normal, has 4k on oil change, red line 5W30. No milkshake. Ok no water in oil, let's check for oil in water. No oil in coolant. Check catch can, think maybe it's full. Nope, half full consistent with 4 k on oil change. It gets emptied every change. Check intercooler no oil in that antifreeze. Check air filter not wet, dry as normal.
So I'm drawing a blank. Not leaking water or oil, everything is normal per my experience over 2 years I've owned truck and my only other thought is to purchase one of those exhaust gas test to see if exhaust gas are getting into cooling system. Unless. And this is a guess, Water could have somehow gotten past the header collector and into the head pipe?
Looking for thoughts ideas or comments. Tagging @Wild one due to his engine experience.
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