I just bought my 2000 Ram 2500 truck with v10 Magnum. I have no history with it. It has lots of white smoke in exhaust after it warms up. The smoke is not sweet. It burns your eyes. There is no CE light and I am losing coolant at a slow but steady rate. No oil loss I can see and no performance issues. Runs relatively smooth. Also, the oil is clean and shows no sign of being mixed with coolant. I have noticed the temp gauge stays steady at about 1/4 range after warmup
It's a beater truck so I will not be changing head gaskets or checking for cracks.
My burning eyes tell me it's partially burned fuel but isn't that going to be black? The white smoke tells me coolant but it doesn't smell like that. Oil may look white/blueish but I'm not losing oil and what of that eye burning?
So I guess I'm asking what this may be and what, besides head removal, can be done to stop it? I put a can of the copper stop leak additive in the coolant but the jury is still out on whether it helped.
Thoughts? opinions?
It's a beater truck so I will not be changing head gaskets or checking for cracks.
My burning eyes tell me it's partially burned fuel but isn't that going to be black? The white smoke tells me coolant but it doesn't smell like that. Oil may look white/blueish but I'm not losing oil and what of that eye burning?
So I guess I'm asking what this may be and what, besides head removal, can be done to stop it? I put a can of the copper stop leak additive in the coolant but the jury is still out on whether it helped.
Thoughts? opinions?