Antifreeze leak from the throttle body

[sjonesist]

Good morning,

 

I was looking over things under the hood and noticed a small antifreeze leak. Upon closer inspection, I noticed the leak was coming from the lower end of the throttle body near the spring assembly. Anyone know what this piece is? I have a 2000 LE 4WD.

 

I’ve attached 2 pics below. The first shows the general area with the leak circled and the second is a close up of the piece in question. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

 

[sjonesist]

I apologize I can't seem to attach my pics.

[MY1PATH]

maybe one of your coolant lines is cracked.

[Alkorahil]

The throttle body has coolant lines running to it.

I would suspect the metal attachment point on the throttle body is cracked/rusted and leaking.

There are many people on here who have bypassed this cooling line, you might do a search in the forums for it.

[sjonesist]

The throttle body has coolant lines running to it.

I would suspect the metal attachment point on the throttle body is cracked/rusted and leaking.

There are many people on here who have bypassed this cooling line, you might do a search in the forums for it.

 

Thanks for the comments, sorry for the inconvenience but please see the site I just created with the pics.

Leak Pics

 

or

http://antifreezeleak.shutterfly.com/pictures/

[silverton]

I had an issue similar to this on my old 91 escort gt. The hookup for coolant to run through the throttle body is just pressed in, and while i was doing a quick jaunt down the freeway, it blew out and my car turned in to a steam cloud. I ended up just bypassing it. Gave it a high idle for a bit longer on a cold start, but no adverse affects!

[ahardb0dy]

the part in the pic looks like thermo element that controls the idle as the engine warms up.

 

pic below:

 

the part highlighted

 

[sjonesist]

Thanks all for your comments and a special thanks to ahardb0dy for the part name and the beginning of my next job.

[MY1PATH]

Thanks for asking something new. You should be promoted for that. Its not very often that somone joins and asks a question that hasn't been answered before.

[ahardb0dy]

And the pic was a big help, soon as I saw it I knew what it was,