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Posted: Sat Dec 30th, 2023 05:50 pm

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98 B4000 - My passenger side spark plugs are often swimming in coolant. Other than the two hoses that go over that side of the engine, is there anywhere else for coolant to leak from? It's caused my cam sensor to go bad, and It's causing other issues as well. The hoses don't seem to be leaking, but at this point I have no idea.

Since they don't seem to be the source of the leak (I will still replace them) I'm wondering what/where else I should look.

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He's probably sold the thing by now :)

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JAMMAN wrote:
He's probably sold the thing by now :)
LOL, actually no. I haven't fixed it. I just haven't had time, instead I went out and bought a new to me truck:

I'll get around to fixing it. I have two kids that are going to start driving in a year or so, so I told my son if he can save up the cash, fix it himself, it's all his.
I got a thing to pressure test the cooling system. I put about 10lbs of pressure on it, couldn't find a leak, went inside to dinner, forgot about it all night, next day, and then when I was working the day after that, my wife came in pissed because it had puked coolant all over the garage... So it leaked from somewhere, still cannot tell where from though.

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JAMMAN wrote:
He's probably sold the thing by now :)
Still haven't sold it.

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Sure its coolant? Could it be condensation from the A/C?

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Eddie Money wrote:
Sure its coolant? Could it be condensation from the A/C?
Plumes of white smoke out the exhaust pipe now. so yeah, I think it's coolant.

The stuff on top of the engine had a green tint, and the AC lines were nowhere near it, but two coolant pipes went right over that area.

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If your 98 Mazda B4000 has the 4.0 & it is blowing white smoke, it could have a blown head gasket, or you probably have a cracked cylinder head or two. I went through a problem of losing coolant in a 2000 Ranger w/4.0 OHV engine & it would foul 1 spark plug each side. When I finally got tired of pulling & cleaning spark plugs, I pulled the heads to find each head had a small crack in them.

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