Exhaust system

From : dennis

Q: like a wide assed rabbit attacks a guy when hes injured.g wait a minute! thats my rule good shot fur face!! gbmfg gotta take the shot when it presents itself... got snow got about two inches of slush about wed or thurs of last week and it was gone the next day when it got back in the 50s. good thing i got the springfield for christmas!! denny roy denny .

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From : budd cochran mrd150 preciscom spam net

friends i have a 1996 ram 4x4 1500 pu slt 5.9l 75k. i have had a small antifreeze leak for quite a while. it was never enough to leave a spot on the ground but i would occasionally get a whiff when i got out of the truck and would have to top off the reservoir every once and a while. yesterday there was a small pool on the ground and it used a third of the reservoir in a day. please forgive the terms i am going to use below as i really dont know what im talking about as usual. im having trouble finding the exact location of the leak. it does not appear to be any hoses. the best i can trace the leak is that it is wet on a seam about three inches behind the seam that the water pump is mated to with those six or seven bolts on the passenger side. in other words there is the mating surfaces to which the water pump is bolted passenger side; then a few inches behind this is a seam. it appears that the coolant is coming out of this seam; leaking onto the oil pan seam; running back a couple of inches; dripping onto an engine mount; then onto the axle; then to the ground. is it possible this leak is actually from the water pump i dont know if a pressure test would help me as i was watching it drip but could not trace it any further up than i so eloquently stated above. steve there should be a weep hole in the snout of the pump under the water pump pulley. run your finger under there and see if it comes back wet. engine off of course. al .