White smoke and rough idle only when it's cold weather

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  1. Gartruck

    Gartruck Bobtail Member

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    I have a freightliner cascadia dd15 engine, and so when the weather is cold outside it starts to emit white smoke and refuses to accelerate, but after awhile it stops when I increase the speed. But if I lower my velocity to about 25 mph, it starts to emit white smoke again. Why is this? If this has happened to anyone else, what did you do to fix the issue?
     
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  3. LDLWells

    LDLWells Heavy Load Member

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  4. Gartruck

    Gartruck Bobtail Member

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  5. LDLWells

    LDLWells Heavy Load Member

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    Gotta work on your definition of cold.

    Best guess is the engine is still warning up the fuel, plus condensation from the hot exhaust hitting cold air, unless it's doing it all the time it's not an issue
     
  6. Gartruck

    Gartruck Bobtail Member

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    After awhile when the truck is running, it starts to choke and lose power. It starts up in cold weather just fine, its just after some time it starts to choke. I took the truck to Petro and ran a diagnostic, but nothing came up.
     
  7. LDLWells

    LDLWells Heavy Load Member

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    It'll be hard to nail down if it's not throwing codes. We've exhausted my knowledge
     
  8. Gartruck

    Gartruck Bobtail Member

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    Thats fine, but thank you for the help
     
  9. Rdflogistics

    Rdflogistics Bobtail Member

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    How did you solve this problem, My truck is doing the same thing
     
  10. InTooDeep

    InTooDeep Donner party survivor

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    When was the last time you ran an overhead
     
  11. Rdflogistics

    Rdflogistics Bobtail Member

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    Sorry, what do you mean?
     
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