can't find my coolant leak

[elementx440]

2001 ZX2
40k miles

I got a leak, it's been killing me trying to find it. It's 13 degrees out as well, so it's not so easy to go crawling around the ground. Overnight the car left a nice sized puddle. It seems to be dripping down onto the transmission somewhere, and burning off on the warm transmission/exhaust. There's a sweet glycol smell in the air I can smell from the cabin at drive thrus and when i get outta the car...

The orange connector below the thermostat housing there is a little wet, and there's a little residue all around it, so I'm thinking maybe the housing/seals is causing it? How common is this failure? What's the most effective remedy?

[elementx440]

Wow that was quick, I solved my own problem....im that good heh...

so I bent down to take a closer look and braced myself on the "gooseneck" thermostat pipe, and it had a lotta give/wiggle. The top right screw seemed to have no torque to I unscrewed it a bit more, coolant started dripping out in the exact same drip pattern from the pictures... I tightened it up and I'll assume that's it... we'll see what it looks like in the morning...

I had the car two years, never lost a drop of anything, never touched the thermostat, strange...

[bonusbuilt 1950]

The 2.0 DOHC has a o ring between the headf and the plactic thermostat housing. Very common problem. Be careful when you tighten the bolts as they can snap the housing. I've sold a few lately at the dealership I work at.

Barry