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dustang90

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In the mornings I start up the car it has a really bad exhaust leak, but after driving for a while the leak goes away!! Why is that????
 

StangTtops88

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Once your exhaust heats up, it expands and fills the gap/seal/gasket its leaking from. Just my .02
 
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Thats what I thought, I have pinpointed it is coming from the passenger side but with the damn smog pump tubes in the way it is going to be a bitch to replace that header gasket.
 

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Rip it off! You dont need the smog pump anyways!
 
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I would imagine it is just simple expansion/contraction for this. It must not be that much of a leak though, because I don't think it would expand too much.

Chris
 

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Yup, mine does it. In the morning i have a bad leak on my driver's side header at the collector. After the car warms up, the leak is gone.

Usually when that happens, it's a tiny leak that just sounds big.
 
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