Gents,
I cleaned it all up and discovered a crack on the plate behind the thermostat (pics attached). After running the engine up and getting hit hot, I was able to notice coolant coming out of the back side of that plate. So the goopy material was coolant that was basically leaking and than heating up and turning into basically a Vaseline type material. Anyways, I going to tighten up the 2 bolts in the pics to see if that slows the leak, a leak confirmed since I. loss coolant every time I motor around for an hour or so.
I'm going to order a new replacement part due to the crack. Any body replace this? Looks like I got to take a lot off the front of the engine to do it. Any info would help.
V/R,
MQ