1993 Mazda B2200 from North America - Comments

I just bought this truck for $250. For the money it's a great deal. The gut I bought it from said it had no major mechanical problems, but did mention that it smoked a bit on startup - especially when cold. I just started it this morning and so much smoke came out it looked like my house was on fire. We're talking like a serious smokescreen cloud. I've seen and driven the truck before and it was totally fine. I've noticed other owners of this same truck posting this exact problem as well. Does anyone know what this is caused by? or what I could do to try to fix it?

Seems like a solid truck - VA body so no rust.

OK...read your problem with smoking in the morning...! Mine was doing the same thing... just pull the head and get new valve guides installed... cures the problem!!

Mine was smoking in the morning too. I changed the guides, but it wasn't that, its the piston rings.

I am rebuilding the motor in my 91 B2200 at 170,000.

The morning smoke is caused by leaking valve stem seals. The oil in your head is leaking down through the seals over night and onto the pistons. When you fire it up in the morning you are burning off the oil, that's why you see oil at start up and then it goes away. The oil by that time has burned off.

If you are burning oil all the time like I was, you have bad rings. Sometimes you can have bad rings and not know it until you get a valve job done. When you get the valve job done you increase your compression per cylinder wich pushes oil around your weak rings and goes on to burn it.

Get your valve stem seals fixed and you should be okay.

Just replaced the valve seals in mine... unfortuneately it didn't fix the smoky morning problem. Mine has only been smoking for about a month, but it has become quite a smoke screen maker. I am now looking into replacing the piston rings... otherwise great little truck.

Good luck.

Quinton.

My 1991 B2200 has 176,712 km. I bought it in the 2002 Summer at 153,000 km.

When I bought it, it smokes so much sometime that I lost the truck in the smoke, but only for few seconds. The Mazda dealer said the pistons has some dirt around it that may jams the ring for few seconds. He sold me a bottle of special cleaner that I put in the oil pan then changed oil after 300 km. This made about nothing perceptible after, but I believed the the suggested problem make sens. I changed oil on every 1000 km to help clean, for one year, then after each 3000 km. The method works and it never do that after.

May be some people don't realized oil is cheap compared to engine repair.

Hello..Mazda lovers I am one for sure. I own a 1992 mazda b2200 automatic with a/c. I paid 3200.00 back in 2001.reg cab, and bucket seats.

1. At that time I got me a lemon,no problem it had 178000 miles. I rebuilt the engine and a valve job.It cost 1300.00 3 years ago. i am in a border town so things were cheap to overhaul.Thanks to our local machine shop that sold parts much lower price than dealers or auto parts store.

2.Despite regular oil changes, I have replaced radiator with a metal, plastic sucks.

3.I had smoking problems, but was white smoke.. if you have an automatic, replace you transmission modulator located next to you tranmission it goes bad and burns up transmission oil.

The modulator is hard to find be specific about it, because most mechanics never heard of it or the dealer. It cost 84.00 plus 30.OO labor.

4.I have a 1987 Mazda b2200 stick shift runs better than my 1992.I use both trucks in my pool service business. Yes I would buy another Mazda only if it were a 1992 or 1993. These new ones are too expensive and I hate all that fuel injection mess. my trucks have carbuertors.

Leo (Sam the pool man)

Laredo tx.

Bought my 93 B2200 at an auction about a month ago, while it was still warm outside. Now in October, with cool mornings I have also noticed the smoking in the mornings. I was then surprised to discover that the engine is carburated, not fuel injected. This requires there to be an automatic choke on the carb to start when cold. I noticed some slightly hard starting on cold mornings and discovered if I pump the accelerator twice before ever turning the key it seems to start right up. I believe the smoke is just extra gas burning off, since even after 2500 miles no oil was needed to be added. I don't know how Mazda recommends starting up, but this works for me.

We just bought a 1991 Mazda B2200 and this is our 4th one.

We always buy them used in the $1500-$2500 range. This one we went further to $2800 because of the low mileage.

The problem is that it smokes really bad in the morning.

All 3 of the other ones did it too, but this one is by far the worst. With each one of the other 3 I used Bardahls NO SMOKE with a couple oil changes and the problem went away for up to 2 years and sometimes just a few days after the

1st application. This one also does not smoke after the morning burn-off. I am a little more concerned that this one won't work with just adding NO SMOKE so I also bought SLICK 50 and another thing called STOP LEAK for oil for the next oil changes. I looked in the reciepts that came with the car and noticed that the previous owner had the valve seals replaced. I guess it didn't work since that was just 2 months ago. My question is : What else could it be? It does not smoke after the morning burn-off so it can't be the piston rings right?

If you ever find the answer please post. the 91's have this problem too. Smoke for like 1-3 minutes during start up. I put a quart of oil in every 1000 miles too.

Any mazda that smokes only cold please understand that the cause is the piston rings. the oil control rings sieze to the piston and do not scrap the oil off the cylinders while cold, after a few seconds or minutes the piston expands thus causing the oil control rings closer to the wall and walla rings now scraping the oil off. in other words tho oil control rigs are the problem. the upper compresion rings work fine and I have not seen any problms with low compression.

Alright so I bought a 1988 Mazda b2200... cost a thousand dollars, 332km rebuilt engine. I'm in school at the moment and I had them replace wheel drums brake pads rotors the works. Pretty much replaced everything and had the truck rewired because it was completely messed up. OH and my axle seals were replaced and stuff, were a huge pain to fix. Anyways I've also put a new gas tank on it as it was leaking extremely badly. So I've put about a thousand dollars into it so I'm at about 2 thousand dollars now, a lot more than I would like. Anyways When I got it the engine was working just fine, but now that I have been running it for a while its been burning a huge amount of oil! But putting liters of oil in it on a two week bases. SO that's a completely HUGE problem, and its also running like crap. Its really bad when I first start out driving, likes to die out when I press on the gas or try to accelerate to fast. Anyone have any ideas I could try? I almost just wanna sell the stupid thing at this point, but its not running good enough to sell at the moment.

I bought a '92 Mazda b2200 back in Feb. 2004 with about 153k miles on it. It has always billowed white smoke when it's cold and when it has been sitting more than a day. I've since wrecked it one time, and bent the main pulley on the crankshaft. After running it up over 190k miles, it's still a good little truck, but it smokes every time I start it now, and has a serious loss of power. It is time for a total engine rebuild, but that will cost almost as much as a (new) crated engine. I have absolutely no complaints about the manual transmission, though. It works great, even though the kid I bought it from couldn't seem to find 2nd gear.

I love mazda trucks!!!