I have a 2007 Freightliner Columbia with a 14.0L Detroit. It has about 840,000 miles on it.
The truck was sitting for 2 days and I started it to make sure it was ready to run tomorrow. I walked away for a couple minutes and when I came back the truck was sputtering and blowing white smoke (steam) out of the exhaust. When I shut the truck down, coolant was leaking from every exhaust joint on the entire system (for example from the air charger hose that runs to the motor).
The reservoir is now empty.
I am of course either thinking head gasket, or EGR Cooler. I tend to be leaning toward the EGR cooler but I have no idea.
Has anyone experienced a similar scenario and successfully diagnosed it?
'07 Freightliner blowing white smoke from exhaust and leaking coolant...
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by Gwdickson85, Oct 13, 2016.
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Could be both, you can pressure test EGR cooler easier then head so I would start there first. Not actually white smoke if EGR it is steam.
Test this by turning engine off, let it cool down, remove EGR valve (looks like a small beer can with wires). if is wet inside, steam cleaned, then it is EGR. -
oops yet send to fast;
head gasket will smoke, steam, and 85% of the time pan will have milky oil. 75 bucks will tell you about oil if not visible. -
It was definitely steam coming from the exhaust. Someone also told me to check the EGR line that runs across the valve cover. They say if you remove a rubber, start the truck up and see if any coolant spits out. If so then it's the cooler. Not sure if that's a similar test as to what you mentioned.
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to test the head gasket, take a bottle and tape it to the radiator support, and stick your overflow tube i the bottle and drive it. if the bottle has coolant in it then most likely its the head gasket. or you can get a bottle of water and stick the tube in ad see if it make bubble in the water bottle.
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to test the cooler, try and take one off the boots off the charge air cooler tube, and look inside to see if it wet, or if there is like a white residue on the inside.
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I know for sure there was coolant leaking out of the air charger line thay runs to motor (on the driver side)....
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Then it might be the egr cooler
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Can not this same scenario be caused by a bad air compressor?
Or the system could have been overfilled with coolant and the extra is being expelled as the coolant heats up and expands. Overfilled system not in this case.
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