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My passenger side Header cracked again!

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  • Start date Start date Sep 28, 2004
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92greenlx

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I have a small crack on my passenger header and It's getting welded today. Last time my passenger header cracked it was bad and I just replaced my headers. I thought maybe it was caused by bad motor mounts. So I changed them out. Well my headers have been on for a little over a year now and the passenger hearder cracked again! I think it might be from playing around and happend during a downshift. But what would cause this? I am stumped and afraid that it will happen again in the future unless I figure out the cause and fix it! If not then no more hard down shifts for me!!!!!!
 
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where did it crack? on a primary? at the h-pipe flange? at the block?
 
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On a primary both times.
 
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Anyone have any ideas?
 
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anything touching it? spill anything on it while it was hot? if you did, sudden hot to cold will weaken the metal over time
 
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I wonder if your A/C lines came in contact with it... they get really cold and if they touch your headers which can reach 1000 degrees or so; well thats a sudden 1030 degree temperature shock. Grasping at straws but you never know.
 
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Ok guys, I thought it was cracked again but it wasnt thank god! My leak was from a washer that must have fallen in between somehow long ago. So I just pulled of the header some re seated it and now its fine.
 
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