D13 White smoke, 6th injector mechanical fault.

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  1. Sauisk

    Sauisk Bobtail Member

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    The thing is the fault will clear itself and the smoke too. Truck was basically working fine. As soon as the smoke got to be constant along with the fault I brought the truck in and that's were I am at now. I've taken the truck to several places to have it checked. One place basically wanted to change the engine head right away so I ran from it but it may end up being that. It's just that I have gotten so many different opinions on what it may be. Bad engine head, bad valve adjustment, bad cup, injector. I'll be changing the cup tomorrow, we'll see.
     
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  3. Sauisk

    Sauisk Bobtail Member

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    About 640,000. I took it to the Volvo dealer to have a valve adjustment and one of the lobes of the cam had been eaten away by one roller and the engine wire harness was in bad shape too. Everything was done at the Volvo dealer
     
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  4. flood

    flood Road Train Member

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    Injector cups are a known problem with the d13
     
  5. Midnightrider909

    Midnightrider909 Road Train Member

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    Are they still a problem? I thought they fixed that.
     
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  6. Sauisk

    Sauisk Bobtail Member

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    By the way. I thought Volvo had changed the injector cups from copper to steel but the one they just gave me is copper....
     
  7. Socal Xpress

    Socal Xpress Road Train Member

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    @Midnightrider909 what rock have you been hiding under. No fix just a bandaid. I am sitting at 5 sets cups and 4 injector sets at 1
    1.1million.
     
  8. Socal Xpress

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    @Sauisk what oil are you using and do you idling alot?

    The cups should only be the stainless conical ones. I would return the coppers asap.
     
  9. Midnightrider909

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    I dunno. I thought I read somewhere that the injector issue got solved. My 2018 doesn’t idle as good as it used to when it was new so now I’m wondering. No white smoke though.
     
  10. Gabyssup

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    FYI: I had a damaged injector cup and the reason for me to replace it was too much coolant pressure on my hoses (all coolant related) and mysteryously loosing coolant fluid that needed to fill up almost every morning. It was so bad that 2 coolant tanks were replaced within a week. After that I had good coolant pressure and no coolant refill afterwards, no overheated engine.
     
  11. Gabyssup

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    FYI: I remember changing an injector cup to stop over pressure on all my coolant system. Pressure was too high that cracked my radiator, most rubber hoses exploded, twice the coolant reservoir cracked and over heat was an issue as well. After replacing the cup all went back to normal. See if these are part of your truck symptoms as well. If fuel or coolant is spoted in cups that means is damaged according to my mechanic.
     
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