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What can cause a antifreeze leak on the intake manifold???

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Old 10-28-2001, 12:15 PM
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Car: 1986 IROCZ
Engine: LB9....rebuilding coming soon
Transmission: rebuilt 700R4
What can cause a antifreeze leak on the intake manifold???

It leaks on the passenger side of the intake mainfold in the little valleys filling them up,could this be a cracked block??,cracked intake manifold????

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Old 10-28-2001, 12:43 PM
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check to see if its a gasket first, if not then look at the heater lines if theres only by there, then if not probley a cracked intake/
Old 10-28-2001, 02:26 PM
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That's a popular gasket leaking spot at about 120k miles. My IROC leaked there, and so did my SS Monte Carlo. It's highly unlikely you'd get a crack in your intake or heads there. (unlikely, not impossible)
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That gasket's easily checked with a pressure test.
Mine went at about 65,000 mi.- Jag, maybe it's the Kentucky air?
It was a good excuse for an Edelbrock manifold, anyway!
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