Duramax smoking

Well that proves it...Duramax'es are no good.
I'm going out right now and get rid of mine.....:)

Few week ago in town I saw a pick-up truck (diesel, but don't know what brand it was). The owner modified the exhaust so it came out the bed of the truck with 2 pipes that were higher than the cab. Really a show off. It was belching black smoke like an old freight train. I've been told if you mix oil with the diesel it will make the smoke black. I was really irritated by the smoke. I do remember the day when diesels did belch black, especially the semi's. I think anyone who does this is a pure idiot. But leaking oil is another matter. That's not a deliberate attempt to show how much of an idiot one is.

Hope the guy you referenced to above can get it fixed.

So, if Chevy switches from D/max to Cummins, they will have a rust free 300,000+ mile truck?

Isn't that what we all want :@

Was the Duramax a local truck or an out of state visitor?

Sounds like more of a lack of maintenance than an inherent defect. Any motor that is not maintained is going to wear, and one indication of wear is blue smoke from the exhaust.

When i'd be pull hard through the mountains or jumping on it trying to get up to speed after a turn about, my old f-350 would put out quite a bit of smoke. I had a towing tune of 60 hp(higher boost, better fuel mixture, adjusted shift points).

But then there are the goofballs that put those crazy tunes on their trucks just so they can coal roll through traffic thinking their "cool".. That **** needs to stop

Golfcart wrote:

But then there are the goofballs that put those crazy tunes on their trucks just so they can coal roll through traffic thinking their "cool".. That **** needs to stop

I agree. That's something I never understood. I guess they like the attention :?

Golfcart wrote:
When i'd be pull hard through the mountains or jumping on it trying to get up to speed after a turn about, my old f-350 would put out quite a bit of smoke. I had a towing tune of 60 hp(higher boost, better fuel mixture, adjusted shift points).

But then there are the goofballs that put those crazy tunes on their trucks just so they can coal roll through traffic thinking their "cool".. That **** needs to stop

In some places they have a number you can call to report gross polluter vehicles...enough people do that and maybe you'll see less of them.

I think I'd want 4 smoke stacks like the titanic myself.... fill up a long bed with them.. AND a steam whistle.. I suppose at least that might have style ;-)

Alot depends on how the truck was used/abused and maintained, or not. One guy might be easy on the truck, do all the maintenance properly and get 300+K out of the motor. Another guy might drive the truck hard and not maintain the engine and only get 150K out it. What brand it is doesn't matter much.

When I was younger, I had a friend who's grandma bought him a brand spanking new '95 Dodge 3500 4x4 dually quad cab V10, with all the options. It was a beautiful truck.

I would loved to have had a truck like that back then. If I could have bought a brand new truck like that back then, I'd probly still own it today, and it would likely still be in very nice shape. I take good care of everything I own.

But this guy, by '97, that beautiful new truck was a complete, falling apart, piece of junk. Everything about that truck was broken, missing, leaking, fell off, dented, smoking, you name it.

Why?? Because he was a MORON. He drove that truck HARD, harder than I ever seen anyone drive anything. He got the truck airborn many times, mud bogged it in deep water whenever he could, did burnouts and donuts all the time. He was an IDIOT. No other words for it.

He blamed all the problems with the truck on Dodge and the dealer he bought it from. It was him who ruined that truck, no one else.

He's probly on some truck forum today, decrying Dodge trucks as junk, and probly whatever other brands he owned too. That's what brain dead morons like him do. Blame everyone else.

braindead0 wrote:

Golfcart wrote:
When i'd be pull hard through the mountains or jumping on it trying to get up to speed after a turn about, my old f-350 would put out quite a bit of smoke. I had a towing tune of 60 hp(higher boost, better fuel mixture, adjusted shift points).

But then there are the goofballs that put those crazy tunes on their trucks just so they can coal roll through traffic thinking their "cool".. That **** needs to stop

In some places they have a number you can call to report gross polluter vehicles...enough people do that and maybe you'll see less of them.

I think I'd want 4 smoke stacks like the titanic myself.... fill up a long bed with them.. AND a steam whistle.. I suppose at least that might have style ;-)

I saw a guy not long ago with stacks in the bed of his truck painted like cigarettes. I couldnt help but laugh when he took off billowing smoke