cooling loop cracked?

I'm working to get a 2000 1.8 back into operation. One of the things I noticed was that it was leaking power steering fluid. It appeared to be leaking at the joint of the cooling loop and hose.



I cut the last inch of the hose, and used a screw clamp to resecure the hose to the loop. And it still leaked. I took the hose off and felt around the cooling loop itself, and I can feel what looks like a small crack along the length of the tube in the area where the hose would clamp.



has anyone else had the cooling loop tube crack?



thanks,