I have a coolant leak on my brand new KC motor I discovered when firing it up for testing/tuning! The leak is at the bottom of the timing chain cover, right near the lowest bolt on the passenger side. I can see where the fluid is weeping slowly out at the gasket.
What I would like to know is:
Is this a big or small problem? Is water supposed to be there? My
oil looks clean and uncontaminated.
The bolts at the water pump and the timing chain are all torqued down. Should I try loosening them and retorquing them or is that a waste of time? Should I just assume it's a gasket malfunction and proceed from there?
Is this a common occurrence on a new motor? I was hoping that having KCR assemble the whole thing would tend to make things like this way less likely.
Regards to all and hope all of your projects are going smoothly.