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External coolant leak around tb/uim area?

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tom5170

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I have a leak and it's around where the throttle body is. It runs around the uim gasket on that side but I can't seem to figure of its tb gasket or uim gasket. Last time I saw the leak, I found a loose stud on the tb to uim on the bottom so I tightened it but stripped the stud so I just switched the studs around and put the bad one on top.

So I plan on going to jy and pulling some tb to uim studs and replacing the tb gasket.

I just replaced the uim and lim gaskets a year ago and I did the uim with all new plenum, and dorman upgraded egr pipe for uim. What could it possible be? Coolant is only coming from the tb side. I have no coolant in the oil.

Like I said the coolant leak is right around under the tb and I can't tell if it's uim, the uim gasket, or tb gasket. I dread pulling uim in this cold michigan weather
 


Alright. Is jy best place to get a set of the tb studs and nuts?

I had this leak 2 weeks ago and the lower tb nut/stud was loose as could be so I took tb off and reseated gasket and put it all back together and now it's leaking in same exact spot. I just did the uim gaskets last year with the dorman upper uim kit with upgraded egr tube. Can these gaskets go bad that fast? Torqued too tight?
 
alright well i went to the jy and pulled off 3 studs and nuts. i replaced the tb gasket with a fel pro one and tightened everything snug. i didn't see any coolant inside the UIM. the old tb gasket is a orange or red dorman and appears to be a little pitted around the bottom of it where it seals the coolant ports. i compared the gasket sizes and the old dorman appears to be thinner around the bottom and the fel pro is thicker. i didn't see any warped plastic around the UIM meets TB area.

can the gasket go bad? it's a year old. can it just flatten out if it's been tightened too much?
 
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