In Addition, being an exhaust port, on the down stroke of the piston
cooler air can be sucked in through the leak and put a hot spot on
your valves.....that can cause them to detonate prematurely and burn
valve as well as top of piston....can you say rebuild or new motor?
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Barry Oliver
<barrysuperhawk@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Ray Block wrote:
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Phillip Batson
>>>
>>> If the exhaust header is leaking, what kind of bad things are going to
>>> happen if I don't fix it right away?
>>>
>>> To be sure I'm talking about the right thing...the muffler system pipes
>>> connect to it and it connects to the head. The gasket between the head and
>>> the exhaust header thingy is what is leaking. hah! I'm such a newb!
>>
>>
>> Headers are aftermarket tubular steel pipes between the heads and the
>> exhaust pipe(s). Exhaust manifolds are cast iron and come stock between
>> the heads and the exhaust pipe(s). Which do you have?
>>
>> Besides an annoying noise, a leak there will affect your Air/Fuel ratio and
>> possibly cause poor performance and gas mileage as the O2 sensor(s) won't be
>> seeing the correct A/F ratio.....which will give your PCM incorrect data.
>>
>> Are you sure you have a gasket problem or could it perhaps just be some
>> loose bolts?
>>
>> Ray
>>
>
> When mine took a dump, I started melting things with the hot exhaust... It's really an easy fix, though, just dremel off the 2 bolts, drop in the new gasket and bolt back togeather with Stainless bolts...
>
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