Alright well heres the deal, i went to autozone and got a new section of hose to replace my old. I installed the new piece (biggest bitch ever), then re-filled with coolant. As I am refilling, I hear coolant start dripping onto my floor (great). I notice it is dripping from the area where the hose meets the firewall.

The copper-ish colored pipe that comes from the dash/out of the firewall that I put the new hose over is allowing coolant to leak out. I have the hose pressed in there as snug as possible and it still leaks out of this area! Is it possible that there is a crack in the copper pipe or something? I did also notice that the pipe is slighly pinched and is not a perfect circle.

How should I go about fixing this? I am so close yet so far.

Also, while I am filling coolant, how is it flowing in? By that I mean where does it flow through? Does it flow from the block side to the firewall side, or vice-verca?