Captain Hook

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I've been reading all morning and everything seems way more complicated than it needs to be. White smoke from coolant, coolant can be seen on rear of my N/A fc's motor. Not enough space between the firewall and the motor to see exactly which hose it is. I just want to know if there's any way I can fix/replace the hose without taking off the intake because I can't afford a new gasket right now. I drove 800 miles from Arizona to California and it didn't have a single issue the whole way, now all of a sudden I find some of my hoses are corroded. Buyer beware, I guess.

Edit: if anyone can link me to a diagram showing the coolant hose system, that would be awesome, because everything I get is for the vacuum lines.

barkz

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Unless you have a trained pet mouse with thumbs... not gonna happen...

Rikk

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This may be pointing out the obvious but I would start by taking off the hood and most auto parts stores carry a small mirror on a telescopic pole this may help you find the leak prior to disassembling in order to fix the leak, have you tried getting at it from below?
GL Rikk

pfsantos

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Nothing is impossible, but if it is the hose from the back of the throttle body that bends down and goes to the rear iron (shaped in a question mark), then it'll be pretty close to impossible to replace it. Pardon my run on sentence, kind sir.

Dak

Is this white smoke coming from the exhaust or from under the hood? If from the exhaust you may have two separate issues as leaking coolant hoses won't make it smoke out the tailpipes.

Captain Hook

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Thanks for the replies guys, oddly enough we figured out what hose it was and had enough slack to snip the corroded end off and reattach it. No more smoke. It was leaking directly onto the motor from the hose.

Planning on taking the intake off this weekend and swapping out every hose I can get to that needs to be replaced, is there a list of hoses I can pull up? It'll work fine for now but I figure I should get all new hoses before something more serious breaks

barkz

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Good plan. If one just randomly split, expect more to follow very soon.

misterstyx69

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welcome to 25 year old cars with heat cycled parts!