Anyone....Everyone....HELP!!!!!!!

[trickstang94]

Ok well this morning on the way to work I was driving down the highway, and in front of me there was a accident. Well I think I run over something big that came off one of the 2 cars(ie..a front bumper or grill or something). Anyway, at first I was just worried about tires and maybe some scratches on my front bumper, but when I got off the highway and hit a stop sign I started hearing this horrible noise.
It sound kinda like a exhaust leak. My header bolts come loose all the time and im constantly tightening them. So I thought no biggy, maybe that whatever went under my car jolted the bolts loose or something. Not so lucking.
When I got home this evening I pop the hood and try to tighten the bolts up....none loose at all. So I start it up a listen. A very very fast exhaust leak sound mostly from the drivers side (i think). I tried using a long tube and tried listening for a leak but couldnt find one.

1. Does anyone have any clues or ideas of what this could be?
2. Do exhaust gaskets blow like head gaskets?
3. Does a blown head gasket make a specific sound?

Bottom line I just hope this isnt serious nor expensive.
Any suggestion will taken into consideration.

 

[94GTLaserRC]

.....but when I got off the highway and hit a stop sign I started hearing this horrible noise.

1. Is this Ernan? (reads like it)

2. I think whatever it is happened when you hit that stop sign.(since you said that is when it started)
RC

 

[trickstang94]

i didnt hit a stop sign. I meant stopped at one. Dont care about grammer at this very time, i have more things to worry about.

 

[MysteryMachine]

LOL RC beat me to it.

You might have broke something loose somewhere else on your exhust check around or maybe you broke it at the collecter to H pipe flange (but that would be really loud) or maybe poked a hole in it somewhere

 

[trickstang94]

So is anyone going to help or is everyone just gonna pick fun at my typing?

 

[MysteryMachine]

hey i gave you my ideas can't help anymore until you tell me what you find out

 

[Chin]

check yourrrrrrrr tiressss

if you did get somethin stuck in one of them.. when you drive at slower speeds it sounds like a very very fast exhaust leak.. so if you ran over something and it sounds like its coming from a specific place.. check all your tires wouldn't hurt ya know?

EDIT:
i only say this cause i had the same issue.. and if a piece of metal is stickin out and touchin the road just a bit.. it makes an exhaust leak type sound..

 

[trickstang94]

I couldnt find anything broken. Do you think it maybe ok to start up my car, if its the engine is not hot, and spray so soapy water on headers and the collectors to see if there is an air leak.

Chin.... thanks for that idea but it still makes the same sound when im in neutral.

 

[davins130]

if it sounds like and exhaust leak, its probly an exhasut leak...run the car and follow the sound, that about the best help your going to get

 

[91LX_5L]

I have had two header gaskets that the bolts are tight but they still developed leaks.

I have had many header leaks.

Take your car out, go on the highway and pop her in 5th gear, put the gas on slightly with the windows up and your radio/fan off so you can hear well. If you hear a nice ticking and it sounds like its comming from kinda behind your dash/infront of you then its your header.

If is sounds like its comming from under you, your H pipe might of got hungup and loosed at either the flowtubes (to catback) or to your headers fllanges.

You can also pop ur hood and fire up your beast and listen header leaks are usually a good tick and you can kinda tell there comming from there.

Anyways try those things. If its not your header check your H pipe. If its not that then chances are its not a exhaust leak.

Keep us posted.

 

[davins130]

you probly just bent your fender valve

 

[trickstang94]

what is a fender valve????

 

[94TURBO5 O]

Your H-pipe collectors either at the headers or the cat back are prob off centered from the impact. Start up your car and lay on the ground beside the car and try to pin point the spot is most likely coming from then let me know.

 

[94YellowStang]

not sure if you still have your smog or not but check the smog line on the h-pipe. or crank the car a listen and feel around the h-pipe collectors for air with the car COLD.

 

[S/CBlack95GT]

and spray so soapy water on headers and the collectors to see if there is an air leak.

You do that to find a leak on a tire, not headers. Spraying soapy water on the headers will cause nothing but a bunch of boiling water and steam.

 

[94GTLaserRC]

You do that to find a leak on a tire, not headers. Spraying soapy water on the headers will cause nothing but a bunch of boiling water and steam.

Try rotating the air in the tires.
RC

 

[for_honor]

...if it was your head gasket you'd know it by white/gray smoke exiting your exhaust pipes, just blew mine 3wks ago

 

[Slow5.0]

1. Is this Ernan? (reads like it)

2. I think whatever it is happened when you hit that stop sign.(since you said that is when it started)
RC

Nope it wasn't me

 

[1994Vib.RedGT]

I had a problem like that, a ladder fell off a work truck and went under my car, it knocked the collector flange offline a little bit so i would get periodic LOUD exhaust leak sounds, so you know what I did? I cured the problem by installing a new Bassani o/r X!!!!

 

[bjl95mustang]

I had an exhaust leak and then one day it got really bad. My h-pipe broke at the first cat. It's peobably something loose and it will take some time to just track it down.