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my 97 nissan altima is a 2.4 L in line 4cyl it sprung a leak in the steel coolant pipes I was informed that the repair was more expensive than the care was worth $ 1500.00 minimum for repair- other than the coolant leak the care is in very good condition NO Dents, very minor scratches and 3 rust spots size of a quarter. The engine runs fine. Need better rubber. need CV Joint and boot. IS the car sellable? what would you recommend? anyone please?-----milage is 144676

I was told that the coolant pipe required removing the intake manifold and mechanic was unsure of what else may be involved- no nissan dealer close so dont really know what to do

hey thanks for the reply I will follow up on your suggestions

What is the deal with the coolant pipe costing $1500! I'm not looking at it but that should be an easy fix. A new half shaft doesn't cost all that much and tires are really as much as you want to spend.

Yes you can sell it, if it runs ok, could get an inspection sticker. How much - who knows. Check the valuations at the various sites - KBB.com Edmunds.com NadaGuides.com etc.

Were you counting fixing all this stuff for that $ or what? Hard to calculate rust repair,

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I need to replace this part but I have NO clue what it is called. It leaks coolant though.

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That is a coolant pipe that is actually part of the intake manifold. If it can't be repaireds in place somehow, the whole manifold will have to be replaced.

Hi and thanks for reading.

My car is a Rover 25 1.8 Gti

All diagnoistic work so far has been done in the dark with a torch, so I may be more accurate tomorrow morning

I was driving home today when something failed under the bonnet, a load of blown slush was thrown on the windscreen which the wipers and screen wash just spread and did not clear it. I only had another 200 metres until home, I did not hear a bang or any noise and the engine didn;t appear to be making any unusual noises.

When I got home, there was smoke coming from the bonnet. Opening the bonnet revealed the inside to all be covered in a brown, sticky goo. It feels weird to the touch, in honesty I think it does feel like oil is mixed in with it. It is also brown coloured and looks emulsified (like sludgy mayonaise). I am fairly sure this is symptomatic of a blown head gasket.

However, if I remove the oil cap and also check the dip stick, then I can only see normal oil it does not appear to be emulsified.

I have noticed that a pipe from the radiator is now detached and there is little to no coolant left in the system (the bottle is also empty) there is brown sludgy stuff in the container also.

Could it be, that only this pipe has detached and I have not blown my head gasket. I am happy to post pictures tomorrow morning.

Is it worth reconnecting the pipe, refilling with coolant and starting?

Has anybody added coolant to the eng cooling system recently? It sound like you have gotten two different types of antifeeze/coolant mixed . When this happens in turns in a brown goo that is very hard to flush out.

We get coolant mixes all the time and it has never caused a problem. Dexcool will create a sludge if it is exposed to air in the system from being low. You need to have a professional look at that and determine what it is. It could be oil or trans fluid mixed in.

Let me clarifty my statement . If you have green coolant top off with same . If dexcool orange top off with same. regular green coolant will not sludge up even when level is run low. Put dexcool in to top off a low green system and it will lower the corrossive inhibitors and shorten the life of coolant and can cause brown goo if the system is run low.

AA man has just been - it is not good news.
He confirmed it is definitely oil mixed with the coolant, he imagines this would be the head gasket but did also mention several other things it could be.
Anyways, thanks for the reply and the suggestions.
Off to the knackers yard with it ;;

We can't see your car or what leaked out of it and your description doesn't tell us too much. You need to get it to a shop for diagnosis. It sounds like the radiator hose blew or the radiator neck broke but that sludge still needs to be determined what it is.

i have a 1997 ford 3/4 ton truck that is spraying antifreeze around the fuel injection. what could be causing this.

There is a coolant pipe that goes under the 5.0 engine (I think the 5.7 ford is the same)and I only did one but it wasn't all that hard. That upper manifold did need to be removed and sticky parts and cleaning gaskets was all of the work.

I did charge about $450 and that was a while ago. As said that was a while ago and TMK would have included new antifreeze and an oil change but the labor was most of it. It did take a lot of work to do that right, Tom and Cat!

I have a 94 oldsmobile cutlass cierra s 3.1, just the other day i was replacing the thermostat and thought that was the only thing keeping my heat from working. make sure coolant levels are good and let it get warm. the heat still would not work. i got to looking and there is a leak down in my engine. when i start my car i can see it sortof foam up a little as it leaks but its too far in to see where its coming from. it looks like its coming from a pipe that the coolant runs to possibly the heater core. any help and info would be appreciated

We aren't there to see what is leaking and the 3.1 does have a few coolant pipes. You need to pressure test the cooling system to verify the leak.