So, I took my M1009 on a few trips this year and had a blast but the smoke has really taken some fun out of things. It only smokes on the driver's side, but it's pretty bad and parking too close to human people who enjoy breathing is ”rude.”
I had been told it was likely a bad injector, but when I got my laser thermometer out and checked 3 cylinders were much hotter than the other 5. So, hard to tell which injector was likely to be bad.
The truck has blowby. Kind of a lot. I don't want to put a ton of money into what might be a mostly dead engine. Looks like injectors are $200+ for all 8.
What are your thoughts? Get some crush washers and swap all the injectors to the other side and see if the problem changes sides? Compression test? [Not exactly sure how that works on this] I've seen people talk about timing on these contribute to smoke, but I'd expect that to be on both sides.
I had been told it was likely a bad injector, but when I got my laser thermometer out and checked 3 cylinders were much hotter than the other 5. So, hard to tell which injector was likely to be bad.
The truck has blowby. Kind of a lot. I don't want to put a ton of money into what might be a mostly dead engine. Looks like injectors are $200+ for all 8.
What are your thoughts? Get some crush washers and swap all the injectors to the other side and see if the problem changes sides? Compression test? [Not exactly sure how that works on this] I've seen people talk about timing on these contribute to smoke, but I'd expect that to be on both sides.