Squisher and his magical anti-freeze

[Squisher]

This is more a rant than a plea for help, but if you know of a fix I'm all ears.

I have a '98 F150 with a 4.6 V8 and every two years or so the #4 cylinder (furthest back on passenger side) develops a miss-fire and when I pull the boot off the plug there is like a tablespoon of anti-freeze in the well in which the plug resides. For the life of me I cannot detect a leak in the heater hoses that are suspended above it. I'll swap them out, but I'd sure like to know this is the fix for the problem. The hoses look dry as a bone. Nothing, nada.

 

[Possessed Freak]

This is more a rant than a pea for help, but if you know of a fix I'm all ears.

I have a '98 F150 with a 4.6 V8 and every two years or so the #4 cylinder (furthest back on passenger side) develops a miss-fire and when I pull the boot off the plug there is like a tablespoon of anti-freeze in the well in which the plug resides. For the life of me I cannot detect a leak in the heater hoses that are suspended above it. I'll swap them out, but I'd sure like to know this is the fix for the problem. The hoses look dry as a bone. Nothing, nada.

Head Gasket?

 

[JCH13]

A head gasket leak would put coolant into the cylinder, not the spark plug well.

Maybe an intake gasket leak?

This problem seems to be an epidemic, lots of complaints about it.

 

[Bartman39]

Frick`in porous alum heads is what alot of its about... Cast alum heads tend to do this depending on the alloy which most are made from cheap crap (mass production)... A few years ago a company from AUS. started producing and then selling aftermarket high performance alum heads to the US and they were almost like concrete blocks when it came to antifreeze... It would just about pour through them... Food for thought...