Leaking coolant.. :S

[Damo]

G'day,

Tonight on the way home from work I was giving the car a bit of sh!t (nothing new) anyways i'll cut to the chase. The car threw the P/S belt @ 5500 rpm, yeah that'll do it. :P I only had about 2 k's to get home, so i just drove it, got home fine. Put P/S belt back on tensioned it up and was about to go inside for a cold one, well actually my second cold one, when i smelt something a bit funny. :

So I take a peak under the front of the car and what am I confronted with...

A nice big puddle of coolant.

Yummy. : Sooooo, I do a bit of investigating : and tighten the big hose on the water pump thingo :P top up the resovoir with water, and start her back up (by this stage it had leaked about 1 litre and had eventually stopped). No more leak, hmm, so i rev her a bit and leave it running for a while then shut the car off again. Look underneith no more leak.

About 30 seconds later just as i'm about to head back inside, i hear a slight dripping noise : it's leaking again. Ok now i'm starting to drag this out, I can't find exactly where it is leaking from but it's somewhere inbetween the P/S pump and the alternater in that region near the block, I just cant pinpoint it.

I was talking to axedan in IRC and he suggested maybe it's the water pump seal, I was thinking the headgasket was gone or some crap like that. I like to be negative. There is no milky oil cap, it's not leaking from any of the hoses, or the overflow, the car hasn been running normal, no overheating or anything weird.

Anyone got any ideas ? It's not leaking at present it eventually stoppped again after a while. Is there something obvious i'm missing or havn't checked right. Any help would be appreciated as i'd rather not take it to a radiater place, since I don't want to spend anymore uneccessary money on this car.

Thanks in advance, BTW if you need me to describe sh!t better in order for you to help me diagnose the probem them let me know and i'll try my best. :P

Thanks in advance, Cheers,

Damian