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Only thing that is very odd about this entire situation is that now its not even telling me check coolant on the dash... :(

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Originally Posted by Weasel (Post 658949)

Nothing to do with the trans reset. My guess is the coolant valley pan is leaking, which is all but impossible to see as it is under the intake manifold... If you remove the plastic cover over the engine there is one spot towards the rear of the passengers side where you can kinda see down in there with a flashlight and look for coolant. It usually only leaks under pressure like when hot after driving, and has some room to pool up before it drips out the back.

If that is the leak be prepared for some costly labor as the total job pays about 8 hours + the parts cost.

Weasel I put the car on the lift today and I believe you are 100% right. It looks like its leaking from under the intake manifold. The thing about that is this the diagram below of what I need to order?

http://i28.tinypic.com/npqhi1.png

Because you keep saying "Valley Pan" while I already ordered parts from the above picture...

Actually #1 in this link is the valley pan, but you need to remove the crossmember and pipes in that picture to get to it anyways. So you would need the #5 and #7 o-rings as well as the #2 gaskets to do the job anyways. And you would need the intake manifold gaskets as you need to pull the manifold for that as well.

The involvement of this job is why I usually make this the time to change all the crankcase ventilation hoses, intake manifold gaskets, rear cover of the manifold which houses the rubber diaphragm for the crankcase ventilation system, etc.