Possible Exhaust leak?...

[dirtyd88]

What noise should i be looking for if i think i have an exhaust leak?? Right now everytime i get next to a median, wall, or other car i hear what sounds to be someone blowing air out of their mouth and waving a card or their hand in front of it...kinda like a "putt-putt-putt-putt" sound. (Sorry for the bad simile, i will try to get a video that has a good sound clip of it.)

i have been told its the lifters, but i know they arent that loud!

any help?

thanks,

[DarrenWS6]

The way to find a leak is to crawl under and inspect any clamped/flanged areas for black or light colored smoke on the pipe, and in the surrounding areas.

[Paralyzer]

your body style is famouse for manifold studs breaking causing a manifold leak. it will sound like a tick and get louder as you accelerate. thats where i would start looking. like darren said look for black tracers also.

[blackedoutV6]

its called a v6


haha no but i get the same thing..think i may be my lifters as well but not sure

[dirtyd88]

yea thats what the guy who installed my exhaust. but i really dont feel like messing with the freakin manifolds!! unless it gets to the point to where it is messing with something....can this effect emissions tests? i would think so....

and are clamps or cat heatshields known for rattling? because i have this annoying rattle everytime i stop, and it sounds metal to metal, but idk where to even begin to look for that..... =-S

[DarrenWS6]

Heat shields tend to rattle if they are rusted and break loose somewhere. Clamps wont really rattle, if they fail they'll just make the truck louder by dropping the exhaust a little, or cause a big leak and stealing your exhaust note.

[blackedoutV6]

your cats might be bad..?

i should probably check my manifold bolts lol

[dirtyd88]

well i just had them checked last week, and the guy said everything is perfectly fine with them, but he did seeing alittle dittereration in the left precat...so in the near future i might save up and replace them all at once when one goes bad...

alrighty...well i might crawl up under her tomorow evening, once the heat disipates, and check the heat shields around all 4 cats...it sounds like the passenger side mainly. thanks darren!

[DarrenWS6]

No problem. Good idea to let the heat wear out, when we cut my rear cats we cut one when it was still hot, got a few nice burns

[dirtyd88]

i bet....it sucks though becuase there is all this stuff that i would like to either fix on my truck, or add to it, but freakin college....why cant it be free!!!

[DarrenWS6]

Its getting to where free isn't free anymore. Nice new sig man

[f150fella08]

Originally Posted by DarrenWS6

Its getting to where free isn't free anymore. Nice new sig man

lol yea looks kinda like 2 other guys on the site

btw darren, get some more logos on that thing!!!

[dixiedesign]

Originally Posted by f150fella08

lol yea looks kinda like 2 other guys on the site

btw darren, get some more logos on that thing!!!

I guess I need to make one now too, considering we're brothers and cousins

[dirtyd88]

thanks! but a cant figure out how to get the logos to not pixelate?

darren or f150fella, can yall help me with this problem, so i can do a better looking one??

[DarrenWS6]

Originally Posted by f150fella08

btw darren, get some more logos on that thing!!!

yep, Bilstein and BFGoodrich logos coming soon!

Originally Posted by dixiedesign

I guess I need to make one now too, considering we're brothers and cousins

Yeah brother Neal, gotta get you one!

Originally Posted by dirtyd88

thanks! but a cant figure out how to get the logos to not pixelate?

darren or f150fella, can yall help me with this problem, so i can do a better looking one??

If you PM me the links to your logos, i'll gladly fix it for you, high resolution.