[s-cars] Coolant Leak at Front of Engine

[Sean Douglas]

Ivan:

he water pump fail, or was the o-ring bad?

Sean



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Demkovitch [mailto:idemkovitch at hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 6:49 PM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com; quattro20v at telus.net
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] Coolant Leak at Front of Engine
> 
> 
> In my case it was water pump :-( And there was 50k after TB job
> 
> You probably see it on oil pan as well
> 
> >Message: 9
> >Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:08:17 -0700
> >From: "Sean Douglas" <quattro20v at telus.net>
> >Subject: [s-cars] Coolant Leak at Front of Engine
> >To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
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> >
> >I was changing my oil today and saw dried coolant drips on 
> the x-over 
> >tube. It looks like it coming from the front of the motor.
> >
> >I'm thinking its one of two things;
> >
> >1. the water pump
> >2. the return line to the turbo, the metal pipe looks like it has a 
> >short piece of rubber hose which runs behind the t-belt cover.
> >
> >Hopefully, it's the latter as I did the t-belt and water 
> pump about 2 
> >years ago.
> >
> >Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Sean Douglas
> >1997 Audi S6//RS2-spec
> >1990 Audi 90 quattro 20v
> >
> >
> 
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