White Smoke

[Osteoblast]

After replacing my turbos the issue has been officially fixed.....no more white smoke.

 

[SL75]

Add my truck to the list. Idled for 30-40 minutes at the airport before pulling off. Massive cloud of smoke for a mile or so. Just had the cam phasers replaced a couple of months ago. Now I get to have the pleasure of trying to convince my dealer that there's a problem. Considering how they were with the crazy-noisy cam phase tensioners it's going to be a battle.

Does your truck have excessive oil consumption? If so, Ford issued service notices for this earlier this week.

 

[copb8]

I just checked the oil and all is good however prior to the new cam phaser replacement it did use more oil

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[SL75]

I just checked the oil and all is good however prior to the new cam phaser replacement it did use more oil

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When they did your phaser job, did they replace valve covers too?

 

[copb8]

When they did your phaser job, did they replace valve covers too?

I'm not sure. I'll need to look at the work order but I don't recall that being discussed. Are there updated ones?

 

[SL75]

I'm not sure. I'll need to look at the work order but I don't recall that being discussed. Are there updated ones?

Yes - they were redesigned to reduce oil consumption.

 

[Donovan]

I will keep my eye on this also

 

[RR_Raptor]

Just took in my 2018 with 32k miles on the suspicion of leaking valve covers. The dealer confirmed bad valve cover and intake manifold gaskets. Both will be replaced next week.

 

[vitessemotorsports]

Same issue here. 2017 that has a valve cover leak. I just found a hair line crack on top of the driver side valve cover.

The truck is not accelerating as hard as it used to. The Turbo gauge on the dash is only going up to 3/4 at full throttle.

 

[EricM]

Not that I haven't seen aluminum or steel parts that have cracked, but I'd damn sure prefer a cast aluminum valve cover over anything else. Ford cried uncle on the plastic oil pans already and changed back to metal.

This doesn't look to be a common failure so I doubt they will switch valve covers over, but it's certainly not uncommon for Fords to have failures with plastic engine components that are in constant contact with hot oil or coolant. They like using plastic for the valve covers because it's quieter than metal covers.