[Rickatsea]

Quoted From EricTheCarGuy:

I don’t think it’s coolant you’re looking at but rather fuel. Is there any way you could post some pics for us to see?

[Rickatsea]

I will try and do that but not sure my camera equipment can get a good shot down the spark plug hole. If I can’t get a picture, I was thinking of starting car to get it up to normal temp, kill it, disable ignition and fuel supply and then turn it over and see if fluid appears in cylinders. If it does under these conditions it would have to be coolant which would be still under enough pressure to work its way in there, yes? 🙂 Also being a numb skull, I failed to mention that I was monitoring moderate coolant loss (with no psychical evidence of a external leak anywhere) for the last month or so before this situation popped up, so maybe a slow developing issue.

[Rickatsea]

thank guys truck has 227,000 mile so i don’t want to put to much money in it.

[Rickatsea]

Thanks for the reply. I would say it looks like the same amount in each cylinder. I did have the entire intake removed from the car. There was zero coolant to be seen in any of the ports or passages or whatever you wish to call them. There were no “clean off” areas in the air passages suggesting something other than air flowing by other than where the fuel injectors spray. The gasket was in really bad shape and there is a coolant port next to the #4 cylinder which allows coolant to flow from the head to the thermosat housing which is bolted on the left end of the manifold. I thought maybe this could be the source of the issue however I could not find trace evidence of how the coolant was getting over to the other cylinders. If the manifold is cracked somewhere in conjunction with a coolant passage I could see how one cylinder could be getting wet but not all four. In my original post I eliminated the two intake devices that use coolant by by-passing them to help rule them out. did not help. Is there a way to bench test a intake manifold kind of like heads can be tested?

[Rickatsea]

radio stop playing in jeep cherokee has power check fuse.

[Rickatsea]

i got my first car when i was 19 got ready to change oil did not have a oil filter whence so i use channel lock.anyway i bent that filter all kind of way it had hole all over.so i could not get it off.so i pour the old oil back in and drove to a service station about a mile from my house.oil had run out .oil pressure light came on.anyway change oil pump and drove car another year.

[Rickatsea]

i have had problem with ford transmission if you read henry ford biography you will know why. nissan make a good trnasmission.

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