sweetbeats
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- 2003 Explorer Eddie Bauer
Hi all. Really hoping to get some input.
‘03 Eddie Bauer with the 4.6L V8 here. I was having a pretty significant coolant leak even under normal operating conditions and I tracked it down, pretty quickly, to the thermostat housing. I put in a new thermostat seal…the old one was pretty toasted…figured I had things licked but now it looks like maybe there’s seeping between the intake manifold and the head? I’m not sure…or maybe it’s just coolant that had leeched in there and it’s percolating out? See the pic below…the picture is showing the area directly below the thermostat housing and you can see it looks wet between the aluminum crossover pipe and what I think is the manifold gasket. Anybody else experience this? Do I just leave it alone until it seems more like for sure a leak? My problem is this is our daily driver, and I know me if I pull the intake manifold it’s injector seals, plugs, vacuum line inspection, throttle body cleaning…
‘03 Eddie Bauer with the 4.6L V8 here. I was having a pretty significant coolant leak even under normal operating conditions and I tracked it down, pretty quickly, to the thermostat housing. I put in a new thermostat seal…the old one was pretty toasted…figured I had things licked but now it looks like maybe there’s seeping between the intake manifold and the head? I’m not sure…or maybe it’s just coolant that had leeched in there and it’s percolating out? See the pic below…the picture is showing the area directly below the thermostat housing and you can see it looks wet between the aluminum crossover pipe and what I think is the manifold gasket. Anybody else experience this? Do I just leave it alone until it seems more like for sure a leak? My problem is this is our daily driver, and I know me if I pull the intake manifold it’s injector seals, plugs, vacuum line inspection, throttle body cleaning…