Coolant leak

Thank you, Joe. Yes, I have seen these images which is how I figure the term they used for it. In the images 15, 26, and 27 are all the inlet line. The problem is first of all there are no part numbers. Secondly the image appears to be showing the rear of the vehicle by what looks to be a fender well at the bottom of the picture. With that being said, it shows the lines coming down the driver's side of the vehicle, across the rear to the passenger side where they would meet up with the rear heater core. The problem is, the lines run down the passenger side, across the rear to the driver's side where my rear heater core actually is. It’s backwards which makes me wonder if that is the correct year and make. I have also looked at the inlet lines at just about every auto parts store and all I have found are the ones in the engine compartment, even though they are for the rear. They are very short of you look at them. There must be a connection around the firewall I just haven’t looked there yet. What I have seen on my truck is they leave the rear heater core and have no connections to be seen as far forward as I have looked. They disappear above the exhaust shield and frame around the paddy rear door.

Sorry Joe. Around the passenger rear door is as about as far as they can be seen without taking a lot of parts off the bottom of the truck. I’m going to be digging into it more either later today or tomorrow because I just haven’t had time, but I do need my truck back running again. I was tempted to just eliminate the rear heater for now at the “Tee” connections under the hood but that’s not going to be very easy or safe either without damaging the hoses.

That’s what I actually did yesterday. When I got in there to it I found that it was a little more than a pinhole, but the clamp was hiding it pretty well, I guess. I used a re-enforced heater hose and not the cheap clamps. Ran it at idle for about 20 minutes last night and it was nice and warm but will probably take it out today.

Thank you so much for your help with this Joe. I will keep you updated if anything ever changes. There is another one of those brackets directly above the spare tire as well and the pipe was in very poor condition there too, so I did the same thing on that one as well. Thanks again and pass the help along to anyone who has this problem in the future cause I’m sure there are more out there with the same issue. Funny how out of all 4 lines that bracket secures only the coolant inlet line was in bad shape. All other 3 looked fine.