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Coolant leak close to the battery area.

gegeyeboah
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My 1.6 ecoboost focus started over heating and lost all it's coolant 200kms after having my clutch, dmf, master and slave cylinder replaced,

I haven't driven it again yet but I looked around for leaks and there seems to be coolant pouring out around the air filter box and the coolant started bubbling after I turned the engine off.

Is there a hose or connector around that area that could've been disconnected? Did the mechanic mess something up?

Car's at 250k kms/ 154k miles

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    The thermostat housing is on that side of the engine. Remove the engine cover to check around that. It could just be a loose pipe on it, or it could be cracked.

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    I saw a couple of videos and the thermostat housing is at the coolant bottle side.

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    10 minutes ago, gegeyeboah said:

    I saw a couple of videos and the thermostat housing is at the coolant bottle side.

    The one with the thermostat inside, yes. But there's another one on that side. Technically called a 'coolant manifold' but most people will still call it a thermostat housing.

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    I currently don't have any tools with me so I can only show it from the top

    Coolant manifold

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    Turned out to be the coolant "flange" or manifold on the side of the engine block

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