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Old 10-01-2010, 10:55 PM   #7
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Default need help with unknown coolant leak still

Question:

If for some reason I have the dreaded BHG, could I be leaking / oozing mostly coolant and an oil mix out of these above named oil cooler lines?
I am not blowing smoke of any kind, my oil on the dipstick looks perfect colored - no milkiness, my coolant loss is visually external of the motor and pouring to the ground from somewhere. Before the big leak and then overheating, the motor warmed quickly to about 40% on the dash temp gauge and stayed there. My oil pressure was anywhere from 2 lbs at idle to maybe 20-30 lbs at speed. This Supra mostly smells like an 'old car' - like a little oil drips being burned on the side of the motor etc... It actually smells and runs like my friends old '67 Buick Skylark. Very similar, which probably isn't a ringing endorsement for the mechanic integrity of this 130K Supra. But it smelled like this, even stronger, after sitting 10 months and for the week before I developed or noticed this now sizable coolant leak.

Are there any other areas that I simply can't see from above the car looking down, or below the car looking up when it was on jack stands where a substantial coolant leak could be pouring down what seems to drain out dead center of the motor and onto the oil cooler lines making me think they were the culprit before and full of coolant only? (That was a false assumption / conclusion I made after seeing coolant all over those hoses).
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