EDIT: after inspection... never mind the title! but it was interesting to see how dirty this thing was. Makes me wish there was a coolant filter on these things!
Well my new find (98 Taurus with 165k on the clock) was leaking coolant slowly near the water pump. I was probably loosing 1/8 cup when parked and who knows how much when running. Anyways, I finally tracked down the leak and it appears to be the lower intake manifold gasket on the water pump side of the engine.
When I removed the intake manifold (and the injectors and the wiring, and the valve covers, the throttle body and a few other things to get to the lower intake manifold) I found this! See pictures:
There's no way the coolant could have cycled through these heads because the passages in the intake manifold are completely plugged. I wonder if my heads are ok after this. I suppose some could have flowed in to the in side of the head and back out of the in side but not made a circle.
I'll be doing a compression check to see if my heads/gaskets are still ok after this. Hopefully all is well. If not I guess I'm this close anyways. It won't be too much harder to finish the job.
Well my new find (98 Taurus with 165k on the clock) was leaking coolant slowly near the water pump. I was probably loosing 1/8 cup when parked and who knows how much when running. Anyways, I finally tracked down the leak and it appears to be the lower intake manifold gasket on the water pump side of the engine.
When I removed the intake manifold (and the injectors and the wiring, and the valve covers, the throttle body and a few other things to get to the lower intake manifold) I found this! See pictures:
There's no way the coolant could have cycled through these heads because the passages in the intake manifold are completely plugged. I wonder if my heads are ok after this. I suppose some could have flowed in to the in side of the head and back out of the in side but not made a circle.
I'll be doing a compression check to see if my heads/gaskets are still ok after this. Hopefully all is well. If not I guess I'm this close anyways. It won't be too much harder to finish the job.
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