hey guys is there a way to check for a leak around the pipe in the picture below without putting the engine back together?

 

You are still battling the same issue?
I recommend that you build yourself a little smoke machine I did it for less than AU$5. Generally it is said you can do it for less then US$10, but mine is even cheaper, because I did not use a whole soldering ion, but only the heater-module from the tip, which you get e.g. in Aliexpress - but that takes very long to arrive (I had spares lying around). So, buy a cheap soldering ion, use an old jar, and old sock and Baby oil, a few short bits of tube and connect your air-blower gun (air compressor). That's the next best YT-link I found - I just replaced the air-pump with the air-compressor-gun. Inside of my jar is the old sock soaked in baby oil.
I had build mine to check of leaks in front of the air-intake on my Fairlane and I found heaps of air-leaks that way.

 

smoke wont help me find out cause with out alot of pressure it does not leak

 

I will not know until you try. I have indeed created pressure in my air-intake system when blowing smoke in to find my numerous leaks.
A coolant system is also a closed system. You need to make sure that all "open ends" are temporarily sealed (I am talking about those open ends, which are open, because you disconnected lines, which were closed before) and obviously also connect the hose coming from the smoke machine in a way, which does not allow leaks (I used the cap of a spray can and drilled a bigger hole into the little hole (which is always in those lids) and put the tube thru there. I chose that lid, because it was a tight fit for the big rubber hose, which would connect to the engine-air-filter-box, which is where I disconnected it using plumber's tape around the lid on top. I have not seen that anyway - it was just the logic thing to do. And you can create as much smoky pressure as you want with the air-compressor attached.

 

That pipe comes out very easily. You will have an o-ring type of seal on both ends of it. When I put mine back together I also added silicon gasket maker around the edge to help.

The only way to test it would be to hook up the hoses, fill the system with coolant and use a pressure tester on the tank to bring it up to 16 PSI.

 

What Larry wrote sounds sensible, but I see a potential problem there: I reckon that you would have had to disconnect a few hoses to get to the hose of concern. So it might be kind of a catch 22 situation: If everything is hooked up, you don't have proper access to the hose of concern, and if you have access, the hoses are not being hooked up.
Thus maybe you can do this: As I suggested already above, you have to come up with some tricks to close off all open ends of the coolant system. Then you either use a smoke machine, or if you do not like that, fill up the system with water and blow compressed air from the compressor into that "system".

However, what I would do (if I were sure that the problem is the hose there): remove the hose of concern, have a very good look at it, decide what is necessary to stop it from leaking (if you think it is the hose that is leaking and not the a.m. seal of the elbow going into the engine block), fix it, and put everything back together.