coolant leak on top of manifold

[bighugehair]

yesterday i got out of my car and noticed some lovely, coolant smelly, steam coming out from my hood. i popped it open and checked it out. it seems like maybe the gasket underneath the water neck/stat housing is spitting a little coolant. is this a common problem? has anyone else experienced this on a 2v 4.6? side question... as far as i can tell, there is only one gasket under the entire intake manifold...am i gonna have to remove the whole thing to fix the tiny leak?

 

[RandyStinchcomb]

most likely you'll need a new intake manifold, commom problem on those wth the nylon/plastic X-over

 

[bighugehair]

oh man that's brutal. you think it would be worth it to get the aluminum bullet intake? as far as i can tell, they aren't that much more $$

 

[bighugehair]

also, i see the PI intake on american muscle for like 200 bucks. on an '02, do i need to change anything to make a PI intake work? or is PI just a fancy way of saying "stock plastic"

 

[RandyStinchcomb]

what year is your car?

Bullitt intake would run you anywhere from $1k used upto @$2k new, PI and Non-Pi intakes were aval wth or wthout the aluminum X-over, so watch what you buy.......

 

[bighugehair]

yeah after i said that about the prices i did some more looking. i found some plastic replacements on americanmuscle.com and summitracing.com, they are running about 200 each. am i gonna need any other tricky parts besides a gasket? i'm definitely not afraid of the job, i just don't want to get stuck missing some essential piece of the puzzle

 

[RandyStinchcomb]

yeah after i said that about the prices i did some more looking. i found some plastic replacements on americanmuscle.com and summitracing.com, they are running about 200 each. am i gonna need any other tricky parts besides a gasket? i'm definitely not afraid of the job, i just don't want to get stuck missing some essential piece of the puzzle

what year is the car

 

[bighugehair]

it's a 2002

 

[isjoining]

weird, your car should have the PI intake with the aluminum crossover. Maybe you need to replace the intake gaskets?

 

[bighugehair]

yeah it's the PI intake with aluminum crossover. i'll probably do a little more inspecting before i replace the whole thing. i mean i have to take the intake off to replace the gasket anyways...

 

[slvr00gt]

You could be have the problem similar to what I found on my heads. See thread I just started:

http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=732819

 

[damacman]

Read this thread . . . you're not alone:

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