Alright... so If i am leaking a substantial amount of coolant from behind my engine and what appears to be below my intake manifold...

What would I be leaking from and what should I fix???


Thanks all

by the way its a 99 d2

 

It is either your head gaskets or your valley pan gasket.

 

uh that stinks... my head gasket can leak coolant but not over heat???

 

It won't overheat until you have lost enough coolant for it to overheat. Take it in to get pressure tested and they should tell you exactly where it is leaking.

 

good deal... A coolant pressure test should tell me?

But If I am leaking coolant, wont a pressure test fail. I mean a coolant leak is a coolant leak regardless of where it is at, right...

 

Don't waste you money. If you have over 50,000 miles on your truck and the gaskets have never been done then plan on head gaskets.
How mechanical are you, a 99 will run you about $1450 plus a t/stat, plug wires and any head work. If you are mechanical, $350 plus in parts and you can do it your self.

 

They should be able to see (you may want to add some coolant dye) that there is coolant coming from the head gasket or a little lower from the lower intake manifold gasket.

 

I just did my head gaskets to fix a coolant leak.

When I got to the lower intake, about half the bolts were just over finger tight. I could have probably stopped with that and taken care of the leak.

But Mike's right. Once you're that far into it, you might as well go all the way. Even at 58,000 miles, one of my heads was warped enough to require shaving .010". So, it was a matter of time before it would start leaking, anyway.

 

I was Just Quoated $2350.00 for a head Job from a Indipendent LR Shop. I whish a Local Shop would do it for 1450.00 Ha Not in Oregon.

 

I'm in the middle of changing head gaskets right now. I got everything off and the machine shop took care of the heads for $75 (he also cleaned them and fixed some mangled spark plug threads for another $25).

All I can say it is AT LEAST a 3 day job. One to get the heads off, one for the machine shop and one to put her back together. There are a few tools you will need that you may not have but all in all it will cost me about 350 bucks, including all the gaskets.