dashhho
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- Location
- Canada
- Vehicle Year
- 2005
- Make / Model
- Mazda B4000 SE
- Engine Type
- 4.0 V6
- Transmission
- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 4WD
While driving home today I stopped to make a quick call on the side of the road. When I stopped I noticed smoke coming from the hood - I looked at my temp gauge and it was normal and then shut the truck off and popped the hood to take a look. The passenger side of the engine bay was covered in a good trothing of coolant. I checked the reservoir and it was bone dry (it had some in there yesterday or the day before for sure). The top coolant hose that connects to the rad was empty but there was some coolant in the rad. The smoke was coming from the coolant dripping onto the cats - that sweet sweet smell.
I drove it to a rad shop 10mins down the road - the guy filled the rad and pressurized the system to 10psi. It held at around 6psi and the guy figured he found the leak near the waterpump but it was hard to tell for sure. I was about 80miles from home - the rad guy figured I could make it so I grabbed a gallon of premix coolant and headed off.
Made it home and it doesn't look like I lost anymore fluid - If I did it was minimal. Temps were okay. The engine bay was pretty dry also - so now I'm confused. I'm now wondering if we mixed antifreezes and its jelling up and plugged the hole? There was yellow coolant in the reservoir when I bought the truck so I assumed that it was safe to use it. From what I read the yellow stuff is okay for my year of truck.
Anyways, the trucks got 220k kms on it. Are these waterpumps an issue? or the hoses etc. Looking for some help on what avenue to go with this. I'll park it and use my other vehicle for now.
I drove it to a rad shop 10mins down the road - the guy filled the rad and pressurized the system to 10psi. It held at around 6psi and the guy figured he found the leak near the waterpump but it was hard to tell for sure. I was about 80miles from home - the rad guy figured I could make it so I grabbed a gallon of premix coolant and headed off.
Made it home and it doesn't look like I lost anymore fluid - If I did it was minimal. Temps were okay. The engine bay was pretty dry also - so now I'm confused. I'm now wondering if we mixed antifreezes and its jelling up and plugged the hole? There was yellow coolant in the reservoir when I bought the truck so I assumed that it was safe to use it. From what I read the yellow stuff is okay for my year of truck.
Anyways, the trucks got 220k kms on it. Are these waterpumps an issue? or the hoses etc. Looking for some help on what avenue to go with this. I'll park it and use my other vehicle for now.