Cummins severly smoking

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dodgeguyinla - 01 Oct 2005 01:21 GMT

I have a 2002 Dodge ram 3500. It has alittle over 100K miles. About a week
ago it started to smoke severly. Its a greyish colored smoke. No
overheating is ocuring. Truck still runs fine. It started after I changed
the oil. I used Rotella 15/40 which the book said to use. Can anyone help?

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RamMan@dodgecity.cc - 01 Oct 2005 02:30 GMT

Check your oil level. My kneejerk guess is you possibly over-filled it.

>I have a 2002 Dodge ram 3500. It has alittle over 100K miles. About a week
>ago it started to smoke severly. Its a greyish colored smoke. No
>overheating is ocuring. Truck still runs fine. It started after I changed
>the oil. I used Rotella 15/40 which the book said to use. Can anyone help?

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John - 03 Oct 2005 17:06 GMT

I agree with the previous poster, over filling could be a problem. Too
much oil may be getting kicked up onto the cylinder walls by the
crankshaft. Too much oil could be overloading the oil wiper ring.

If the oil level is good, watch the oil level. If you're burning oil,
your oil lever will start dropping. If there's no change, then assume
it's fuel related.

Are you sure you put in the right oil? If it's a lighter weight oil,
can it be getting past the rings?

John
I can't imagine that a cummins with only 100,000 miles on it will have
work rings or valve guides.

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