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Originally Posted by 69911e
I have a friend with a 2000 996, 100k miles with antifreeze dripping out the exhaust of the right side.
Obviously this is a problem.....
I don't know anything about the water-cooled Porsche engines other than they did have some issues on the early ones. Not sure if this qualifies as early.
Is this a symptom of a known common problem?
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Either a cracked cylinder liner or a cracked cylinder head.
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Is there a way to make an educated guess without pulling this apart?
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Like the prev poster suggested -- look for coolant in the cylinders
pressurize the coolant system and let sit overnight.
Any test procedure to determine is it is a cracked, head, block, gasket, other?
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What the value of these in this otherwise nice condition car if he decides not to fix?
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I bought a 99 with half the mileage 2 years ago for $8k.
The rest of the car was in perfect condition.
I also had a 3.4L engine lying around at the time.
Mike