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1957 leaking coolant at the rear of the engine

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I know this is an old post but I also just had a similar issue. Noticed a lot of coolant running down the back of the engine, enough to leak out the garage door. After looking as best as I could I decided it was most likely a manifold gasket leak. Ordered the new gasket as well as new hoses and thermostat just to replace while it was going to be apart. Well next night was in engine compartment doing something else and leaned in and rested my hand on the top radiator hose at interface with block and SURPRISE the clamp was loose and that was the leak. It was leaking from the bottom of hose onto the valley pan under the manifold to the rear of engine. A quick couple of twists to tighten the clamp saved me the job of pulling manifold. Still plan on replacing hoses and thermostat.

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JimLeanna55Bird said:
I know this is an old post but I also just had a similar issue. Noticed a lot of coolant running down the back of the engine, enough to leak out the garage door. After looking as best as I could I decided it was most likely a manifold gasket leak. Ordered the new gasket as well as new hoses and thermostat just to replace while it was going to be apart. Well next night was in engine compartment doing something else and leaned in and rested my hand on the top radiator hose at interface with block and SURPRISE the clamp was loose and that was the leak. It was leaking from the bottom of hose onto the valley pan under the manifold to the rear of engine. A quick couple of twists to tighten the clamp saved me the job of pulling manifold. Still plan on replacing hoses and thermostat.
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I had the same thing happen. I was changing something and thought I had put the hoses back on "tight enough" up front and thought I'd developed a major leak from the manifold. Turned out to be just what you found.
 
TJShea said:
Hello. I am still a novice when it comes to these cars, hence my pretty "basic" questions. I parked and noticed a pretty good coolant leak pooling about mid center of the car at the rear of the engine. I checked the heater and there is nothing that indicated that is leaking. I was told during some previous work I had done about 1 year ago that the core was pretty new. I have not been using the heater. Anyway, I checked carpets, etc and no indication of a leak there. It is a pretty good pooling, I do not see any hoses the obviously would have coolant flowing through them anywhere near that area. Looking over the rear of the engine as best I can from the top rear, I could see what appears to be coolant caught in small pools around the rear. it appears that there is coolant around a cover that is on the top of the engine between the heads. Could coolant be flowing below this cover, and because the gaskets have gotten bad, be leaking from there? And if so, does this indicate a much worse problem than just a bad gasket from this cover? I looks to be quite a process to get to this cover that would require removing the intake manifold and all that goes with that. Thanks in advance for any info help.
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A good way to find coolant leaks is .they make floresent die for coolant like ac you can buy a cheap light. Or presure tester to pressure up the system then the leak might show its self. We use both .
 
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