overheating and leak issue

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I have just bought a 1997 Legacy GT and its has a coolant leak issue. I have started striping the car down and lots of the pipes are really quite shagged from years of neglect. It looks to me like the car has at some stage had no coolant antifreeze added to the car and this has caused the issue.

I am wanting to know if anybody else has had this sort of issue and where to get pipes to replaced rusted corroded stuff.

The line marked here is one of the ones that in really bad shape. It sits under the manifold and it looked rusted/coroded and I have some sort of leak going on under here. Has anybody else had coolant leak from here before? Would water under here indicate a head gasket issue? I would think it a bit strange myself but you never know.

The pipe circled here is another pipe I need to replace its broken in the middle and had loads of dodgy repairs done to it. It runs under the manifold and I suspect down to the waterpump but hard to tell until i remove everything.

Hope my questions don't seem too stupid with my questions, but working on one of these cars is very new to me and i am unfamiliar with the layout under the hood.

[Kiwi_Fozze]

If you get the car up to temperature gently, then if the temp spikes if you give it a bit of boost, hg/s are shagged. Also, check the oil for milkyness / clouding, and make sure there are no bubbles in the water

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No milkiness in the water already checked for that, and also no water in the oil. No bubbles as i was watching for that also, but the crossover pipe was shagged for sure and leaking. I am going to replace that and get it running again and then see how the temp issues go after that. I may also bypass the heater core as a temporary measure and if its still overheating I will then pull the engine and redo the head gaskets.

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it turned out to be what i expected and was the crossover coolant pipe that sites under the manifold. The one on this car was corroded and had a small hole in it. It was causing the water loss and overheating issue. Just got to check now that the headgaskets haven't been damaged by this issue.