I've been looking for these damn things for days - and I finally found them.

If certain conditions that I have not established at all have met, they exhaust steam/boiling coolant that never drips.

What are these, which can be exhausting coolant, and is it as easy as just replacing them for a fix?

P.S. I apologize for shittiness of pics. It is well past nightfall here, I've been trying to figure out all of the coolant leaks.

 

uhm

The tube + plastic thing? Which has the clamp thats rusted?

I got a answer for those.

 

The tubes themselves.

There's two, one directly under the tube + plastic thing. ONE of them is leaking coolant, wasn't able to identify which before the steam ceased. I'm trying to figure out what they are from the FSM + laptop in the dark, but I'm failing badly at finding orientation.

I'll be replacing the rusted **** shortly, but I think I'll have to replace both tubes considering the state of some of this car, and I'm trying to get an order out while figuring out what else needs a replacement in the dark with a flashlight

 

Just disconnect the tube where the rusted part is in your pic

thats the air relief silencer, I remove it after the silencer so it puts fresh air into the engine bay

Don't believe me? Look under your bumper on the right side see a familiar tube? Remove the silencer and rev your engine, you'll hear a lawnmower like sound, I don't like that so I leave the silencer on, put your hand near it when the car is running and what do you feel, fresh cold air :P

The tube right there leaking coolent is the rad tube, goes to your radiator

Theres a under body of the car (plastic) you see, you can remove that so you can have better access to stuff, if you removed that you'd clearly see it goes to the engine block -> radiator.

Hope that helps.

 

the lighter hose in the first picture is a heater hose. it connected from the the lower part of the radiator to a pipe. that pipe is connected to another hose that goes into the firewall and into the heater core. the hose above that is for exhaust from your acv valve.

i say replace all you heater and coolant hoses if you haven't already. dont just replace one of em!!! i just replaced mine and the only fitted hoses i needed was the upper and lower radiator hose and the hose that goes from the heater core to the pipe.

 

Yeah, planned on doing that thanks to this. Does Mazdatrix ( http://mazdatrix.com/bhose2.htm ) list EVERY hose necessary?

 

O ****

I'm wrong, guess I shoulda looked at the zoomed out picture sorry. I don't got a tiny'er hose right there :S

Sorry

 

yeah. mazdatrix has em all!!

 

ohh yeah. replace the thermostat too. but it from the dealer only. not from mazdatrix. it cost me $25 at the dealer. and align it properly when installing it.