Leak!?!

[CrispCobra95]

Trust me, I have made many of attempts to stop the leak on my own, I just want it located, and if it doesn't have to be welded (I don't have that either) then I can fix a bolt on repair. I'd rather spend the $65 and it be a small weld bead to fix it than spend $200+ on equipment that doesn't fix it... I'm no master tech but I do know a thing or two.

 

[DeepList]

Haha gave Kevin a call and told him you sent me to him, he chuckled.

Yeah, he's a good guy. How much did he say it would cost to go by there and have them check it out? $65 ?

 

[CrispCobra95]

I didn't ask but I will be shocked if their hourly shop rate is more than that.

And, with this message, I broke the into the 3 digits posts!

 

[DeepList]

I didn't ask but I will be shocked if their hourly shop rate is more than that.

I was wondering because your post above said, "I'd rather spend the $65" so I was like, what?

 

[CrispCobra95]

How much do you think he'll charge then??

 

[DeepList]

Not sure. He'll probably want you to come in so they can at least take a look/listen. I'm assuming he'd probably charge you for 1 hour of shop time, and I don't know what that would be. You'd have to ask him.

 

[CrispCobra95]

Not sure. He'll probably want you to come in so they can at least take a look/listen. I'm assuming he'd probably charge you for 1 hour of shop time, and I don't know what that would be. You'd have to ask him.

Yea, that is everything I expected but, if he wants more than $70 to just look at it (and possibly add a small weld) then I'll end up doing the smoke test after all.

 

[DeepList]

Yeah, that makes sense.

 

[Steve-Oh]

^ if you got the money to send up in smoke then by all means..but it will take a lot more time effort and money to take it to a shop instead of just lay on the ground for a min and push the pedal with ur hand, sht can even do it at the autozone after you buy the seafoam, sht could even have the autozone guy or gal help you look for exhaust leaks..

Ok, you win! :thumbsup:

 

[CrispCobra95]

Well the guys at Verity were really cool. After looking it up and down and doing a smoke leak test and plugging the tips, we have determined its not exhaust but rather mechanical. Possibly a lifter but I'm not sold on that. It's a tisk tisk tisk sound that you can hear at idle and follows the throttle. I suppose I'll go ahead and do a header install and check the lifters at the same time and go from there.