Coolant leak from back of engine.
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I can't tell anything specific from your pics, but a very common headgasket failure point is the rear of either head. That's where the coolant passages run from the block to the heads, and the headgaskets are very narrow there (maybe 1/8"). Bummer.
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Check with a flashlight etc from the front as well behind the alternator and ac compressor - looking down at the valley pan.
On a different thread I spoke about my leak but it was the front of the valley pan.
Long story short - ALL of the valley pan bolts were loose. - apparently a known issue.......
I only removed the intake plenum - alternator, ac compressor and its bracket and fuel rail.
Some say you can get to those bolts with a 1/4 drive around the fuel rail but at that point it was easy enough to just remove it and get a proper sized socket down there and use my torque wrench correctly.
I pulled all of the bolts, IN ORDER, one at a time, and added blue loctite, then reinstalled IN ORDER and torqued in two stages since my torque wrench doesnt go below 20ft lbs.
I've since put several hundreds miles on it with no leaking at all., Never had temp issues, same as you........
On a different thread I spoke about my leak but it was the front of the valley pan.
Long story short - ALL of the valley pan bolts were loose. - apparently a known issue.......
I only removed the intake plenum - alternator, ac compressor and its bracket and fuel rail.
Some say you can get to those bolts with a 1/4 drive around the fuel rail but at that point it was easy enough to just remove it and get a proper sized socket down there and use my torque wrench correctly.
I pulled all of the bolts, IN ORDER, one at a time, and added blue loctite, then reinstalled IN ORDER and torqued in two stages since my torque wrench doesnt go below 20ft lbs.
I've since put several hundreds miles on it with no leaking at all., Never had temp issues, same as you........
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