u/AdMiserable8968

Am I cooked? Took my manifold off a couple weeks ago, and noticed a teal-ish liquid on top of some of the valves (definitely was multiple - maybe all the closed ones). I’ve lost maybe an inch or less of coolant over the last year, about 1500 miles of driving. I don’t have any noticeable white smoke from the exhaust, no milkshake oil. But having a hard time figuring out what this could be other than coolant. Or how it could get there - cracked head?

If it helps, this was taken a few hours after shutting the car off - the car sat for a few days, then I started it, drove it about 15 feet, and pulled the fuel pump fuse to clear the fuel lines.

This is swapped into an e30 I bought last year, so I don’t know much about its history.