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Originally Posted by jdrh
I ended up taking the van to a repair shop. I spent at least a half hour trying to get the pet-cock to turn in order to drain the radiator and finally gave up.
It's turned cold here and I don't have a heated garage, so I decided to let someone else do it. This is rare for me.
The repair shop called me after they had finished changing the gaskets and told me they did a pressure check of the cooling system and that there was a bad leak behind the timing cover. ??? Prior to taking the van in, I had not seen any indication of an external leak. Of course they offered to fix it for another $600. The gasket replacement is costing just under $700.
Any one hear of a coolant leak at the timing cover?
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Somebody is either mistaken or is feeding you a line of bull.
There is NO coolant related components within the timing chain cover on your van.
The (external) water pump is above and to the right of the cover and perhaps the water pump is seeping coolant via the weep hole, (if it is, repair the pump) and the fan has blown some coolant onto the cover and that's what they see.