I took a drive to the diner last night about 2 miles from my house, no problem at all, parked in the lot with nothing new catching my eye. Upon leaving, i was driving down the road and as I was almost home I realized my truck was smoking a little bit. I drove the last couple hundred feet and my truck was smoking from under the hood (burning coolant off) like crazy.

I pulled into the garage today and refilled the radiator and reservoir and fired her up. Even before starting I heard the coolant running out and on to the ground. I fired it up and it looked like the coolant was coming from the drivers side from right under the air conditioning compressor, then running down between the valve cover and intake manifold and pouring out onto the ground mainly towards the back of the motor. While running for a minute it made about a 2 1/2 - 3 foot puddle. I know for fact its not the upper radiator hose. Its a really big leak but I don't see anything definite leaking but want to know if theres anything common I should check before I start assuming its the L.I.M. gasket.
thank you.

 

Remove the AC compressor and move it off to the side. You should be able to see if the lower intake manifold gasket is leaking. That's a very common place for them to leak. It's not a difficult job, but there are some things that need "special attention", and a list of do's & don'ts.

 

Definitely sounds like an intake gasket.

 

Just do the LIM gasket. Cheap and easy fix!

 

make sure its not upper radiator hose, mine rubbed on smog pipe tubing and ran down valve cover,it made it look like lim gasket was leaking. lift hose and check underneath.