Scotty,
thank you for sharing your knowledge and giving us your time.
I have a 2018 5.7 Tundra with 60k miles. I live in Lake Charles Louisana (high humidity) as you probably know from living in Houston. I’m noticing an occasional puff of white smoke when I start up the truck.
Is this something I should be concerned about?
also, I’m not sure if its related but the engines valve-train has a slightly higher pitched “ticking” sound than I’m used to hearing in fords and chevys. It almost sounds like a little Diesel engine.
I do have an Ancel AD 410 that I can plug in if you need more info.
thank you in advance for you help.
cheers,
Your biggest Cajun fan
If the smoke is translucent and only appears for a few minutes on a cool, humid morning, it's normal condensation moving through the combustion chambers. The real indicator of a problem is if your coolant reservoir keeps going down.
Thank you Doc, I checked the coolant and it looks as full as it could get from the factory. So considering how humid it’s been, I’d say I don’t have anything to worry about.