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Old 04-20-2007, 12:11 AM
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Default Headers splitting open?

Quick sanity check... Give the vibration of the TC88/96 engine, how common is it to have headers crack at the bolt on point? Which cylinder is more likely to have this happen?

(Yeah, I've actually got some money riding on this.)

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Old 04-20-2007, 12:13 AM
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Rear from my experience.
 
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Old 04-20-2007, 12:26 AM
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Ive welded the point where thecrossover pipe joins the front header twice on my 01 RKC. And it vibrates a bunch at idle.
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Here, photographic evidence [8D]thats what mine looked like when I went over to TD's

 
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Is there any preventative maintenance you can do for this? Or is this something that I can expect to have to fix sometime down the road?
 
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So, would that be considered a minor leak? [8D][8D]
 
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yea...get rid of the stock $hit


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Is there any preventative maintenance you can do for this? Or is this something that I can expect to have to fix sometime down the road?
 
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yea...get rid of the stock $hit


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Is there any preventative maintenance you can do for this? Or is this something that I can expect to have to fix sometime down the road?
[/align][/align]that'd be the best way. [8D][/align]
 
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