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    I have a light trail of coolant on top of the tranny on the driver side of the car. My guess is the lower intake manifold. but the car has a new aluminum lim gasket and new sc gasket and they were leak free for 6 or 7k miles. it was leaking in the same spot before i put the aluminum lim gasket on. im debating on whether or not it could possibly be the head gasket. there is no coolant in the engine oil, i check it frequently. what do you guys think?
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    Tb gasket?

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    I will look at that tomorrow when its light outside, i didn't think to check there! Those are also all new when i did the gen v swap, kept the L67 tb.
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    Either a tb gasket or the turn around gasket. There is a little cover right below the TB.. it can/will leak.
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    Alright just took a look and its green under the tb adaptor, so now I'm gonna use high temp rtv. Thank you fivefingerdeathpunch. I didn't think to look there. I was scared it was a bigger problem lol.
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    If tap and plug the little coolant holes on the lim you wouldnt have that problem, and you'd be able to remove the tb and sc without draining the coolant
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