Stuttering chevy blazer/ on the road

[Richcz28]

Chevy blazer is stuttering and leaving behind quite a bit of smoke....


Help

Can I limp it another 150 miles

 

[Richcz28]

Holds 1800 ok (read not well but ok) on flats and doesn't stutter downhill but very little uphill power.

 

[rebelgregory]

What color smoke? Black, white, or bluish grey?

 

[Richcz28]

Bluish grey

 

[Richcz28]

I just got within 100 miles of my destination so AAA is coming to get it. It got worse and I couldn't go over 45.

 

[diesel4me]

Is this your diesel?...if so,it got really frigid last night,maybe your fuel is gelling up or the filters are clogging...

 

[Richcz28]

It was inside last night. The garage is like 50 degrees.

 

[diesel4me]

Might have some water in the fuel,whether its ice or liquid,it wont run good!..--not impossible to get a bad tank of fuel along the road...

 

[Richcz28]

Maybe, but it feels way worse than just some bad fuel.

 

[diesel4me]

Maybe it blew a head gasket?....or worse...see how much blow-by it has...look for water in the oil...hope its nothing serious...

 

[Richcz28]

I hope not. I just dropped it off in Maine. There are not any major bad noises. The idle was surging when I started it up after the tow.

 

[campfire]

Might have some water in the fuel,whether its ice or liquid,it wont run good!..--not impossible to get a bad tank of fuel along the road...

I have had similar symptoms from a tank of bad diesel fuel. You can read through the first section of my Suburban thread if you wanna see how the fuel turned out.

I had low power, blueish smoke, and it refused to restart when I parked it (early spring, so still quite cold out).

So don't rule out bad fuel without at least examining it. Especially if it started suddenly.

Setting aside the blueish smoke, a leaky air line on the suction side (allowing air into the fuel system) could cause all the other symptoms.

Let us know how it turns out...