RE: Coolant leak

["Peter Berrevoets" <peterb@mysysltd.com>]

Look at the lower coolant pipe that exits from the bottom of the turbo and
enters the block at a frost plug.  This connection is just rubber and hose
clamp. The leak is likely at the frost plug/rubber end fitting connection.
If you're lucky simply tightening the hose clamp may fix it.

Had the same symptom on mine and that ended up being the problem.

HTH

Peter Berrevoets
1990 200TQ

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-quattro@audifans.com [mailto:owner-quattro@audifans.com]On
Behalf Of gomalley@us.ibm.com
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 1:10 PM
To: quattro@audifans.com
Subject:


My '90 200QT recently underwent some surgery including  EM welding, EM
gasket,
water pump, Timing Belt, O2 sensor, Head Gasket.
    I've got a coolant leak.   Coolant appears to collect on the main
electrical cable to the
starter,( very much right front of engine) then drop to garage floor off
the low point of the
cable.
    Overall volume lost is low. (1 l/month, 1.5k miles)
    My subjective observation:   I don't seem to see anything collecting
when idling or after
driving.  It seems like it's dry when I park it. I'll go inside, then it
belches 0.5 or 1oz of
coolant some time later.  The start of this problem seems to coincide with
the surgery.
      Any insight would be appreciated.
gomalley@us.ibm.com
Thanks,
Greg O'Malley