Need to help a friend, any thoughts on this issue?

[Drewie]

Got this email from a friend of mine today, I have cut and pasted his email below, any one got any thoughts on this?
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G’day Ron,

I am stuffed if I know…I am getting the old VR wagon I have at Mt Evelyn going, as we need to get out of the rental in a couple of weeks, and there is a bloody strange water leak.

It is on the left hand side, the the back of the engine…but…the water is coming out of a hole in the main chassis…if you know what I mean…there is a bit also around the lip of the transmission case…
I have looked above…and cannot see any wet spots or dripping…it is pretty substantial…and it is water…it has the green coolant in it…and the radiator is going down…my first thought was a welsh plug…but doesn’t appear to be…not ruling it out though….heater hoses go into firewall on right side…buggered if I know…any clues…crawling under car with a crap light doesn’t help.

 

[hako]

Inlet manifold gasket?

 

[Tom_1569]

Buy a better light?

 

[F l a k]

Inlet manifold gasket sounds about right

 

[Cheap6]

Heater core, leaking out of the A/C drain tube/hole in the floor above the trans.?

 

[Drewie]

Heater core, leaking out of the A/C drain tube/hole in the floor above the trans.?

That may be a good call, I will pass that one on. Thanks.

 

[Vee-ard]

very unlikely to be welsh plug, it would either have to have been frozen, or corroded to the shithouse.

 

[Cracka]

if it is comming out of the chassis it is the heater core or related pipework, simple quick fix is to bypass the heater tap.

E.G remove the tap join the two pipes into a loop. you will end up needing a new tap then too as they tend to break when you remove them.