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Exhaust Smoke

If your vehicle or machine has visible exhaust smoke coming from anywhere, you have a problem!

The color of engine exhaust smoke and when it occurs can tell you a lot about your engine’s condition. Basically, there are three types of smoke…

Maxodyne stop smoke diesel pack, exhaust smoke fixBLACK EXHAUST SMOKE

Black smoke is most commonly emitted from diesel engines or older gasoline engines, and indicates poor, incomplete combustion of the fuel. Causes can vary widely but can include:

  • Fouled or worn injectors
  • Over-fueling
  • Faulty turbocharger
  • Poor quality fuel
  • Excessive carbon build-up in combustion and exhaust spaces.

In older technology diesels, black smoke can occur across the entire operating range, but is usually worst under full power or during the lag before the turbocharger boosts air supply to match the fuel input. Except for moderate turbo lag smoke, black smoke should be hardly visible in a correctly running engine. In modern high-tech computer-controlled engines, either gasoline or diesel, any visible smoke emissions indicate a problem.

BLUE EXHAUST SMOKE

blue exhaust smoke Maxodyne stop smoke diesel pack Maxodyne stop smoke gasoline packBlue smoke is caused by oil burning. The oil can enter the combustion chamber from at least 6 sources:

  • Cylinder and/or piston ring wear
  • Worn valve guides and/or faulty seals
  • Cylinder glaze
  • Piston ring sticking
  • Incorrect grade of oil (oil too thin, and getting past rings, valves, etc)
  • Fuel dilution of the oil (oil thinned out with fuel)

At cold start, blue smoke is often evident, and can mean reduced oil control due to fouling deposits around the piston rings and cylinder glaze. Blue smoke should not be evident at any stage. Even an engine in good condition can burn quite a lot of oil, without evidence of blue smoke. This is because it has good compression, and burns the oil quite cleanly.

However, it is not at all acceptable for any new engine to burn large amounts of oil, especially after a few thousand miles of “running-in” the new engine.

WHITE EXHAUST SMOKE

Maxodyne stop smoke diesel pack white exhaust smokeWhite smoke is caused by unburned diesel fuel leaving the combustion chamber and entering the exhaust system. That’s not a good sign! Common causes include:

  • Incorrectly set fuel injection timing
  • Faulty fuel injectors
  • Low cylinder compression (e.g. caused by leaking valves, piston rings sticking, cylinder and/or ring wear or cylinder glaze)

When white smoke occurs at cold start, and then disappears as the engine warms up, the most common causes are fouling deposits around piston rings and/or cylinder glazing, and/or sticking diesel injectors.

That’s the bad news…

Low cost solution to most exhaust smoke problems

Here’s the good news – before spending wads of cash having fuel injectors replaced, fuel pumps overhauled, new or rebuilt turbochargers fitted, or an engine rebuild, usually the smoke problems your engine is exhibiting can be solved by using FTC Decarbonizer, Flushing Oil Concentrate, Cleanpower (or ULS Diesel Enhancer) in combination known as the Stop Smoke Gasoline Pack, or especially for modern High Pressure Injection diesel engines (CRDi, HEUI and HPCR), the Stop Smoke Diesel Pack. These products are proven to be highly effective at fixing most exhaust smoke problems, though especially the particular problem of white smoke on cold starts with diesel engines.

Continuous, long term evidence of any exhaust smoke may indicate a mechanical defect, incorrect setting or external factor.

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Stop Smoke Gasoline Pack – Which size do I need?2023-12-13T14:23:46-07:00

Choose the most appropriate Stop Smoke Gasoline Pack size for your particular need. 5 choices are available – Mini, Mini Plus, Small, Medium or Large Pack.

Suitable for both gasoline and diesel.

Mini Pack contains –Maxodyne Stop Smoke Gasoline Mini Pack

  • 8oz of Cleanpower
  • 32oz of FTC Decarbonizer
  • 8oz of Flushing Oil Concentrate

This pack has been developed to suit most small to medium vehicles or machines with engines up to approximately 6.0 liter engine capacity (370 cubic inch), and having up to approximately 16 quarts (4 gallons/19 liters) of engine oil capacity. Typical vehicles/machines include cars and SUV’s, 4-Wheel drives, small pick-up trucks, small agricultural tractors, small marine engines, etc.

Mini Plus Pack contains –Maxodyne Stop Smoke Gasoline Mini Plus Pack

  • 16oz of Cleanpower
  • 64oz of FTC Decarbonizer
  • 16oz of Flushing Oil Concentrate

This pack has been developed to suit most medium vehicles or machines with engines up to approximately 9.0 liter engine capacity (550 cubic inch), and having up to approximately 32 quarts (8 gallons/38 liters) of engine oil capacity. Typical vehicles/machines include 4-Wheel drives, many medium diesel powered pick-up trucks, RVs, small to medium agricultural tractors, medium marine engines, etc.

Small Pack contains –Maxodyne Stop Smoke Gasoline Small Pack

  • 32oz of Cleanpower
  • 1 gallon of FTC Decarbonizer
  • 32oz of Flushing Oil Concentrate

This pack has been developed to suit most large vehicles or machines with engines over 9.0 liter engine capacity (over 550 cubic inch), and having up to approximately 64 quarts (16 gallons/76 liters) of engine oil capacity. Typical vehicles/machines include large heavy duty, hard-working vehicles and machinery, e.g. full-size trucks, 18-Wheelers, earthmoving and excavating machinery, large agricultural tractors, large marine engines, etc.

Medium Pack contains –Maxodyne Stop Smoke Gasoline Medium Pack

  • 64 fl oz of Cleanpower
  • 2 gallons of FTC Decarbonizer
  • 32 fl oz of Flushing Oil Concentrate

This pack is most suitable for trucks etc. that cover a lot of miles relatively quickly, e.g. long distance OTR Truckers. The 2 gallons of FTC Decarbonizer and 64 fl oz of Cleanpower keeps these trucks on the road for a long period of time without needing to reorder as often, allowing for the full benefit of the ongoing de-carbonizing effect, ultimately removing all engine-destroying hard carbon from the combustion chamber, and promoting more efficient long-term engine performance.

Large Pack contains –Maxodyne Stop Smoke Gasoline Large Pack

  • 1 gallon Cleanpower
  • 4 gallons of FTC Decarbonizer
  • 64 fl oz of Flushing Oil Concentrate

This pack is suitable for small fleet operators with up to 3 or 4 trucks or other equipment, or a combination of different types of machines, e.g. truck, excavator, dozer, crane, boat, etc.

 

(32 fl oz = 946 mL, 1 liter = 33.8 fl oz)

Stop Smoke Diesel Pack – Which size do I need?2023-12-12T22:55:30-07:00

Choose the most appropriate Stop Smoke Diesel Pack size for your particular need.

This Value Pack is available in 5 different size combinations:

Mini Pack contains –Maxodyne Stop Smoke Diesel Pack

  • 8oz of ULS Diesel Enhancer
  • 32oz of FTC Decarbonizer
  • 8oz of Flushing Oil Concentrate

This pack has been developed to suit most small to medium diesel powered vehicles or machines with engines up to approximately 6.0 liter engine capacity (370 cubic inch), and having up to approximately 16 quarts (4 gallons/19 liters) of engine oil capacity. Typical vehicles/machines include diesel powered cars and SUV’s, 4-Wheel drives, small diesel powered pick-up trucks, small agricultural tractors, small marine engines, etc.

Mini Plus Pack contains –Maxodyne Stop Smoke Diesel Mini Plus Pack

  • 16oz of ULS Diesel Enhancer
  • 64oz of FTC Decarbonizer
  • 16oz of Flushing Oil Concentrate

This pack has been developed to suit most medium diesel powered vehicles or machines with engines up to approximately 9.0 liter engine capacity (550 cubic inch), and having up to approximately 32 quarts (8 gallons/38 liters) of engine oil capacity. Typical vehicles/machines include diesel powered 4-Wheel drives, many medium diesel powered pick-up trucks, RVs, small to medium agricultural tractors, medium marine engines, etc.

Small Pack contains –Maxodyne Stop Smoke Diesel Small Pack

  • 32oz of ULS Diesel Enhancer
  • 1 gallon of FTC Decarbonizer
  • 32oz of Flushing Oil Concentrate

This pack has been developed to suit most large diesel powered vehicles or machines with engines over 9.0 liter engine capacity (over 550 cubic inch), and having up to approximately 64 quarts (16 gallons/76 liters) of engine oil capacity. Typical vehicles/machines include large heavy duty, hard-working vehicles and machinery, e.g. full-size trucks, 18-Wheelers, earthmoving and excavating machinery, large agricultural tractors, large marine engines, etc.

Medium Pack contains –Maxodyne Stop Smoke Diesel Medium Pack

  • 64 fl oz of ULS Diesel Enhancer
  • 2 gallons of FTC Decarbonizer
  • 32 fl oz of Flushing Oil Concentrate

This pack is most suitable for diesel powered trucks etc. that cover a lot of miles relatively quickly, e.g. long distance OTR Truckers. The 2 gallons of FTC Decarbonizer and 64 fl oz of ULS Diesel Enhancer keeps these trucks on the road for a long period of time without needing to reorder as often, allowing for the full benefit of the ongoing de-carbonizing effect, ultimately removing all engine-destroying hard carbon from the combustion chamber, and promoting more efficient long-term engine performance.

Large Pack contains –Maxodyne Stop Smoke Diesel Large Pack

  • 1 gallon ULS Diesel Enhancer
  • 4 gallons of FTC Decarbonizer
  • 64 fl oz of Flushing Oil Concentrate

This pack is suitable for small fleet operators with up to 3 or 4 diesel powered trucks or other equipment, or a combination of different types of machines, e.g. truck, excavator, dozer, crane, boat, etc.

This Pack is suitable for diesel engines only.

(32 fl oz = 946  mL, 1 liter = 33.8 fl oz)

2023-12-10T21:25:36-07:00

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