Help identify this "tick"
Chive So Hard
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Water dripping from the exhaust is perfectly normal. It happens in every gasoline engine. If you look carefully, you will see drain holes drilled in the exhaust at various places.
There is a surprising amount of water in exhaust gasses. In our Crown Vic patrol cars, if you let it idle long enough, you will get a cyclic gurgling sound as a part of the mufflers actually fills up with water. Step on the gas and a couple cups of water will shoot out of each tail pipe.
There is a surprising amount of water in exhaust gasses. In our Crown Vic patrol cars, if you let it idle long enough, you will get a cyclic gurgling sound as a part of the mufflers actually fills up with water. Step on the gas and a couple cups of water will shoot out of each tail pipe.
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Loud on cold start, quiets down after 30sec, still audible while driving - more so at lower rpm.
Exhaust shop tightened everything down, checked welds and said it was injectors.
Are injectors that loud?
Loud on cold start, quiets down after 30sec, still audible while driving - more so at lower rpm.
Exhaust shop tightened everything down, checked welds and said it was injectors.
Are injectors that loud?
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*Update* took it back to Ford, they identified a small leak where the flange meets the manifold on the driver side. Went back to exhaust shop and they had to make a new flange and pipe before the first cat. Now much quieter while driving and not as loud on cold start. I do still have noise on cold start, but nothing like it was.
Thanks for all the feedback
Thanks for all the feedback
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*Update* took it back to Ford, they identified a small leak where the flange meets the manifold on the driver side. Went back to exhaust shop and they had to make a new flange and pipe before the first cat. Now much quieter while driving and not as loud on cold start. I do still have noise on cold start, but nothing like it was.
Thanks for all the feedback
Thanks for all the feedback
glad you got some resolution on this... those studs on the flange would be new and should be able to move easy so if it still bother you, you could loosen them and put some rvt on the inner flange on the manifold and tighten it back up