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LIM gaskets

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Grand prix 06

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Hello all i have a 06 gp gt i smelled coolant and wouldn't you know it the dreaded lim gasket it looks like. Coolant is standing between the intake and the head.How hard of a job is this being supercharged and all? Thanks for any help! Oh by the way it has 104000 on the car as well.
 


How can you tell? The intake where it meets the head all the way down from pass to drivers side is wet with Dexcool. I heard a hissing noise really close to the intake after it was run.
 
fill the rad with water, then start the car, watch the elbow for the leak. when the elbow blows up it blows coolant all over the place.
 
split rad hose?

the lim gaskets dont leak to the point of everything's wet. you got a 06 with upgraded gaskets already.
 


post some pics or a vid then.

the rad could have split too, the side tanks are plastic and its rather common for them to crack.
 
Scottydoggs said:
split rad hose?

the lim gaskets dont leak to the point of everything's wet. you got a 06 with upgraded gaskets already.
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Not all 06 cars have the upgraded gaskets, early 06 cars built in 05 with engines built a month or two earlier still had plastic LIM gaskets.
 
Took a min, but I found a horrible pic of an old fiero engine. My awesomely gigantic red arrows shows where the elbows are, which can be seen from the top.

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Them stupid plastic elbows WERE cracked! I replaced them with the aluminum ones and the leak is gone! Thanks for all the help and advice!
 
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