Last weekend i hit the drivers side headercollector flange when i fell in to a puthole on a parking lot.
Instant there was a header and collecter gasket leak, i drove it home and replaced the gaskets that night.
next day i noticed i am loosing coolant,and coolant is dripping out of the E-cutout at start up.
I have presurized the cooling system an there is a drop in pressure.
Oil level is staying where it is,and no bubbles in the radiator.
i am a little lost here, rebuild of the engine was just 4K ago.
Could the hit messed up my head/gaskets?

 

How much coolant are you losing? Do you have steam out the tail pipes? Do you have to replenish the radiator often? Is it overheating? Sometimes you can just pour some stopleak in the radiator and rock on. I did that on my truck because I could'nt find the leak and that was 100k miles ago.

 

Are you sure its not leaking somewhere else and just running down the header and collector? If you are losing coolant, fill with plain water and dye and see if you can see the leak with a black light. JMHO

 

no. 7 or 8? and you didn't
say if the water looked frothy
or oil milky. something bad
happened because that is
exactly what happened with
mine (minus a pothole mishap)
and it was the hg - oil was
milky, water fine

 

O.K. stopleak is not an option anymore,to much pressure on the cooling system.oil looks good coolant seems fine.
I have checked al things out i think so i have made my mind up,going to take the engine out through the underside like last winter.
I like changing headgaskets better sitting on a chair,then crawling in the engine bay