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Old 07-02-2009, 03:06 PM
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so about 2 weeks ago i keep hearing a weird ticking noise adn i got scared i damaged my motor, today i took off the headers and realized that a huge chunk outa my gasket was missing, turns out i had the fattest exhaust leek known to man and every header bolt was loose, haha make sure you have the metal gaskets if you do the header swap, i learned the hard way with the shitty paper ones
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Old 07-02-2009, 03:14 PM
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damn. at least it's just a gasket lol. didn't someone on here blow a hole through one of the headers randomly?
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Old 07-02-2009, 03:17 PM
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damn. at least it's just a gasket lol. didn't someone on here blow a hole through one of the headers randomly?

mine was something like this
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Originally Posted by Smmokin01SS
so about 2 weeks ago i keep hearing a weird ticking noise adn i got scared i damaged my motor, today i took off the headers and realized that a huge chunk outa my gasket was missing, turns out i had the fattest exhaust leek known to man and every header bolt was loose, haha make sure you have the metal gaskets if you do the header swap, i learned the hard way with the shitty paper ones
LOL, told you that you had an exhaust leak...
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my tapping was caused by this:


good thing it was just a gasket!
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The same thing happened to me. The bad part was that my boy that helped with my header install cross threaded a header bolt
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Old 07-07-2009, 09:16 AM
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The same thing happened to me. The bad part was that my boy that helped with my header install cross threaded a header bolt
Awsome! Thats my favorite!

lol
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