my 88 TII has recently began leaking and I have no clue what;s going on. It would keep leaking from various places on the turbo and the manifold. but today I removed the turbo and the exhaust manifold and it was filled with coolant. but I noticed that it wasn't the source of the leak.

after I had the exhaust manifold out. I kept cranking the engine and it would keep spitting out coolant over and over.

then I took out the upper and lower intake manifolds and there was also some coolant in the lower intake manifold and I could see some in the intake part of the rotor housing. anyone have ANY kind of possibility of what this could be? I just rebuilt this engine and it only has 400 miles on it, i've never pushed it past 4000 rpms either.

plus if anyone knows if that hole in the turbo manifold is supposed to have lots of coolant travel through it, because mine was flooded


any help would greatly be appreciated.

 

My guess is that you hooked the coolant line off the top of the block to the large nipple at the bottom of the manifold by mistake. Been there done that. check it out

 

hmm could be? but which coolant line are you talking about? sorry kinda confused

 

i do remember a coolant line on the top of the block, but which manifold was it supposed to go to?

 

is this the hose that you mentioned from the top of the block to the bottom of the intake manifold? i was wondering if this is the connection I did wrong. this sounds like the one in your description, but is it in the right place?