Earlier today I hooked up a Direct fit exhaust manifold from LC Engineering and hung the rest of the exhaust. ran fine when it was idling, no leaks, sounded great! When I came back from my first trial run there was oil covering my alternator and pretty much the entire right side of the engine bay. I suspect the timing cover gasket has given out (gonna check it out tomorrow) but am wondering if this is purely coincidence or somehow that header is causing problems. Any thoughts?

 

Anybody else running these headers experience anything like this?

 

Did you take the distributor out?. If so I'm just wondering if the o-ring isn't sealing causing oil to leak on alternator. Just a thought. Good luck

 

I haven't taken it out since it started leaking, I installed a new O ring a couple weeks ago... the power steering pump is dry so it looks like it's blowing out below that.

 

My guess would be front main seal. The only way a headder install would cause an oil leak is anywhere you unbloted/removed something else (that is oiled) to get the headders in. Check anything you removed during headder install, then check front main. Could be it just decided that now was a good time to start leaking.

 

Power steering hose busted

 

Update: Just took my power steering out of the system, still leaking, only under load and at above 3k rpm. spraying oil all the way onto the left side of the engine bay... looks like it might be coming between my timing cover and the cylinder head. what's in that area that is under that much pressure?

 

btw when I took out the dizzy the o ring looked great still, no tears and the bottom of it is dry. (it'd have to hit it to if it was spraying out.

 

must not be my weekend, parked my yota and took out my 77 bronco for its first spring run...

washed it...

running great!

took it on a back road and the rear driveshaft blew up.

Thank god for twin stick!

 

Found the problem, the top left bolt (drivers side) on the timing cover holds my alternator bracket in place, it was just past finger tight. snugged it with some loc-tite and it's holding just fine.