Coolant leaking on LIM in front of SC

[GTPGP98]

Bill- I have coolant leaking somewhere, it's not either of the plastic elbows or the water pump, its dry around them. The coolant is puddling up in front of the supercharger and LIM, its leaking externally and not into the engine. I talked with my mechanic and he isn't able to get to it till the 16th to pressure test the system. Is it possible that its leaking from the between the supercharger and LIM?
I plan on looking at it some more this weekend to see if I can determine where it is leaking.

 

[BillBoost37]

Moved this to thread of it's own to get you the best exposure.

That sounds to me like it's down in the valley's of the LIM. It's possible, but not likely for coolant to leak from the SC gasket to the LIM. It is most common for the thread sealant on the LIM bolts to allow seepage up from the head. Our LIM bolts thread into the head and into the coolant passages. Therefore coolant pressure can push up and allow seepage up the threads of the bolts. This is why in my LIM swap writeup you see me suggesting a GM pipe sealant with PTFE on all LIM bolts.

 

[GTPGP98]

Thanks for the information, I'm going to clean it up tomorrow and get it warned up to see if I can't find out where it leaking. I'll update then. Thanks again.

 

[BillBoost37]

Probably so slow that you won't see if once you clean it.

 

[GTPGP98]

I'm blind in one eye and can't see out of the other. I went and looked over the coolant elbows again and noticed that the top one was leaking, I do think that it is seeping around the LIM bolts also, like you said Bill.
However, when I pulled out the elbows they weren't broken or cracked, but the top one is a little crooked, low and behold when I looked in the open hole there was the broken off piece from a previous elbow. It is in 3 pieces in the picture, but when I took it out it was in one piece.