Old or a very fine coolant leak over a very long time will show a rust looking color, it could have come from one of the hose's in that area. Unless you want to get some heavy exercise I would button that back up and wait for a more definitive failure. If you just drove it I would think it would be wet.???
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Originally Posted by wildrage  The area definately was dry, but there was an orangish powder everywhere. There was also some sort of film near the opening of the heads (see the middle picture) Could this have come from something other than leaking coolant? The car was driven just the day before. Would it be wet, or would the water cook off from the heat of the block? I really don't want to rip into this if it isn't the problem. |