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Coolant leak, Help!

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GettinPaper

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Aug 31, 2009
Battle Ground, Washington
To start it off.. i currently had oil in my coolant.
When i bought the car it currently had a new headgasket replaced.
So i drained the oil/ flushed the radiator, and re torque'd the head to 85ft lb's
The nuts on the arp headstuds came loose after a quarter turn..
After i finished all of that i took it out for a couple pulls and noticed that i'm leaking coolant?
The coolant is perfect now.. but, It seems to be leaking from the left side of the car but i don't know where?
 
By left side do you mean drivers side? If so it could indicate a bad water pump if it's leaking on the timing belt side.

I recommend doing a leak down test then you'll definitely find it.
 
It has to be running down from the thermostat housing or the turbo coolant line as stated above. You see it down there because it is running down your tranny and dripping off. Check all the connections to the t-housing, and coolant lines to the turbo.
 
usually its around the thermostat housing or lines going to the turbo, could even be from the hoses going to the heater core and its just running down the lines, you can get some die with an uv light to check exactly were its cumming from.
 
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