Quote Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch View Post
I've seen the little gaskets fails that the bolt between the iron block and front cover/water pump housing.
That's what it looks like. I plugged the overflow tube off of the radiator and put air in it. You could see bubbling coming out of the edge of the front cover basically behind the water pump. I'm assuming this needs to be fixed by pulling the engine?

Looking for opinions on what to do with the car: 07 with 180k miles. Decent body, not perfect. Just replaced front-end (wheel bearings, whole lower control arm assy, tie rod ends, struts) new breaks, exhaust, tires. Was hoping this was going to last him through college. We did most of the work ourselves, so we have about $5k invested (including what we paid for the car about 2 years ago). However, this fix is out of my league I think. Fix it or sell it as-is (maybe get $500.00 for it?).

Thanks for the comments so far. Any suggestions are appreciated.