I drive a 88 t2 and after a good cold snap it devloped a coolant leak at a small metal pipe behinde a the turbo . before I pull the turbo off is there any way to repair it ?
Also does this pipe go into the turbo or else where ?

 

If its the one I'm thinking of it's the coolant feed line for the turbo, coming from the side of the engine (lower intake manifold I think), down to the passenger side of the turbo's center housing.
It attaches to the turbo with a banjo bolt, so you might just need a new crush washer for that. you don't need to the pull the turbo off to work on this.

 

it is th oppsite one .

 

the one on the bottom??

if I remember right, there is the turbo, a gasket, an adapter then a hose that goes back into water pump housing. hose would be my #1 suspect. unless you had like no antifreeze in system and something froze/cracked. I would try to not pull off turbo if at all possible...

 

Well after pressure testing the coolant system. I found it is leaking at the turbo and not the hose at the water pump housing . So sunday I am going to pull the turbo off .

 

It still sounds to me like you could maybe repair it without pulling the turbo. I would guess you just need a new gasket.

 

How would get to it with out pulling the turbo off ?