[tekkon]

well after reading your post i did a thorough visual check on both blocks and there were no signs of an outside leak except for the one dropping on the tranny. I went ahead with the repair and soon discovered that the lower intake was definately the cause of failure. On both intake gaskets one on the drivers side back and one on the passenger side front had blown a severe hole in the coolant passage portion of the gasket. You could follow the stream of coolant down from the gasket and into the valley. I was a little uneasy about not changing the head gaskets since last time I did only the intakes and then to discovever a few days later that I still had the same problem. Maybe I caught it in the early stages, who knows only time will tell.

FYI. You do not need to remove the fuel lines or fuel rail w/injectors to do this job. There is a bracket on the side of the block that holds the fuel lines close to the block. When this is removed it will allow you enough room to manuvere the lower intake so that it can be cleaned and checked. Although this is not a huge step it does take away the possiblility of damaging the little o-ring inside the fuel line on the pressure side when removing from the fuel rail. I suspended the lower intake with a bunge and did the work just be careful not to pinch or bend the fuel line on anything.