How can i tell if my header gasket is leaking, i took it off because man alive i had the ticking sound and the #8 spark plug would always be black on the white ceramic when i would change my plugs and my tungin was all messed up. I took pics of it on my cell phone . whats weird is the #2 cylinders gasket whole all around it is black and on the 4 and 6 it is black in the middle bottom but on the 8 where the spark plug would always come out black, it has no exhaust on it, WTH!!!


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THANKS SO MUCH GUYS
braden

 

It's pretty simple, all BUT #8 was leaking. Get a good gasket and cinch it down with a good self locking bolt like these 200-101's from Breslin. Available here: http://breslinperformance.carshopinc...rers_id/193522

After you tighten them down, run the vehicle for about 20 minutes. Allow it cool and retighten them and lock em down.

After you have a good seal, if you still have a "ticking" sound (to me it's more of a shhhh shhhh sound) you probably have a bad plug hole. check all the plugs for looseness.

You need to confirm what your fuel trims are doing.

Put your year make and model and any mods in the signature.

Here's a link to see what they look like if you've never seen them before.
http://www.go-breslin.com/text.html
Click on technical

 

yup what he said

and thanks speedy for that link. once i get some new heads, i will be ordering them for sure.

 

Ok yea i would say that leak was not good. I did scan my car like 2 years ago and saw my FT bouncing up and down, on my laptop i have the data, but i will ahve to get it out of storage, i just returned to the country (I was in honduras for 2 years). I have already ordered new Felpros 1406, and will see what they do, i am in the market for bolts, but i was thinkin of the ARP 1" header bolts, granted i ahve heard all good things about the breslins. and my SIG is now up to date for ya, as you can see nothing crazy at all on the car.

 

And what do i do if i have a bad plug hole? whats the solution for that?

 

NOOOO i remoped my driver side gasket and turns out it was perfect, but it hink the reason was because i ahad a few of the original header bolts that are 1 inch long so it helped out pullin the gasket in. Oh well i just bought my felpros at oriellys for 26 bucks. now lookin for some hader bolts