Alright, i was picking out and examining the coolent seals on my dead s4 n/a and while i was removing the inner coolent seal i saw something that confused me

near the bottem of the of the front housing, there is a notch between the seal grove and the coolent passages. It doesnt look like it was worn though, its to clean, lookes machined. Is it suposto be there? or is my housing damaged?. I would post a pic but the only camara i got isnt digi

does anybody have large/highquality pics of s4 front housings?

 

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I can look at mey dead S4 pieces tonight. What you are describing doesn't sound right

 

Doesnt sound right, Sounds like something broke away from in there.

 

http://www.mazdatrix.com/faq/sidehsgs.htm Shouldn't be any passage b/t the water passage and the seal groove.

 

want to hear something even weirder..?


This morning i finished cleaning up the rest of the front and then went onto the rear housing

the rear housing has the same notch in it, in the same place, its even the same width

? ill try to kill my roll of film asap to post pics of this weird ness

 

hailers posted what I was thinking. does it look like that? that is not good.

 

nope, its not a cracked section, thers just a section thats not there..