 everyone Shaber 1000 here today we won't get the front end of this Corvette up in the air we got to check this collector gasket on the bottom of the header where it goes into the exhaust this thing is very loud on this side also it's a it's island really high it's island at between 12 and 1400 rpm I like to see around 800 so there's a couple things I need to check I was looking for vacuum leaks yesterday so I'm not sure what's going on with that I couldn't find any vacuum leaks I am getting the vacuum lines straightened out but as of right now there are no vacuum lines leaking so I'm not sure what's going on there but anyway I want to get this see what I can do with this exhaust I know one of the header bolts is stripped on this side so I may end up taking that header off I thought I had a a set of small block Chevy header gaskets but so I don't know let's see what we got going on here let me get this thing let me get the hood up and get it up in the air and on stands and we'll see what the collector gasket looks like if there's one on it I don't know it's pretty loud sounds like an open header on this side that's how loud it is so anyway let's get it up now and check it out okay guys before we get started look at this tire just from sentence that five years in a garage on concrete which is better than dirt I guess but then sat what two years out here they were getting dry cracked the last time I look at them but see this was on the bottom I moved the backward yesterday so I figured they're all like that showed that the monkey she's like oh we'll just have to get new ones yeah okay she's like what are they expensive huh we'll see this wheel does not want to turn it we'll turn when you're moving the car do you have this on a jack stand and I'll always keep the jack under something whenever I can just in case but see there's a header bolt it's not stripped it's in there crooked I'm not sure the collector gasket let me see if I can get you under here I don't know what this is leaking must be water but there's where the collector gasket is I don't see any signs up leaking yet but yeah it doesn't look real well I'm gonna go and take them bolts off and that pipe there should just set right on the frame what this does it goes way back here then around here it goes up into here and somehow back out that tailpipe side pipe okay but anyway currently he's the one that did this exhaust so I don't know so let me go get a wrench first of all we got to take them bolts out there's just no way getting around that you know probably have to drop that header down so I can maybe try to run a tap and straighten that straighten that bolt out up there see if I got a gasket on me just get new gaskets and bolts are pretty cheap I don't like the tires I still don't know where this water is coming from this has been let me do some checking here still don't know where that water is coming from gotta be coming out of here somewhere yeah I see some leaves down in there okay so what I'm wondering I know it looks like to bring new nuts on the back of that thing but they're probably stainless I'm back that collector so what a lot of guys will do me included we just I'm I know this head's been off of here what we usually do is just unbolt the headers from up here and move the headers back but in order to do that the right way you have to loosen that collector so what I'm thinking may have happened is they didn't loosen the collector and kept pulling this back and putting it forward trying to put it on and all that what happens when you do that is it rips that gasket and I know this gaskets probably bad so right now I'm gonna go ahead and try to get these bolts out I don't know how well that's gonna work and I got unbolt that collector the way because when you go to put these back on once you move that out of the way and try to put it back on it's not gonna be right that's probably why they got that cross threaded like that so I'm gonna have to unbolt that collector anyway I'll get new collector gaskets but what I'm thinking is I may have to pull that header clear down out of there I think this one comes up from the bottom I may have to do something with that steering column I don't know if I can get this to come back here far enough so I can get a tap in there I don't know we'll just have to see I got to get that straightened out or it's always gonna leak there the weird thing is the leak sounds like it's more in the center and then it's really loud back there in the back so it may be blown clear out back there I don't know so let me see if I can get these bolts out of here and get that collector unbolted and then then I'll bring you back I'm not gonna bore you with that it's just three bolts down on the bottom and then these six up here on top there's two there two in the middle and two on the end I'll have to pull these plug wires off that's not a big deal there's still some wires I don't know where this goes that is a hot wire it's been made up because there's the other end of it now I took that off because the other end of that's open and it's a hot wire and I didn't want to shorten out on anything so all right I got to get to work but first hot one today 90 degrees feels like 99 well time for a beer I've been on this thing for you know a good 20 minutes anyway maybe 10 all right let me get some cold liquid in me and I'm gonna go ahead and get those bolts pulled and I'll bring you back when I find out something okay guys so I got the header gasket out I didn't take the collector off yet but you know I got to I mean I just haven't done it yet none of these bolts were tight the very last one and they're not looking that great either well this one don't even this one don't even have the washer on it have washers lock washers and what you do when you put these on you tighten them down you start it up you let it run you get it up the operating temperature then you let it cool down and tighten them all back up again and when you got these kind of headers all your gear has no you're going by two to four times a year you want to go around and tighten and keep tightening them but anyway so I get this out as you can see this is the one that's in crooked that wasn't crooked right there you can see it leaking there center one of course was leaking then you get down here to the end and holy shit this is copper gasket yep how hot that was this one wasn't even in this one here wasn't even in a half turn this one was about a half turn these were about two turns each this one was the only one that was tight and of course this one is was crooked so I'm not sure I can say I may have pulled that header clear off to get to it I don't know we'll just have to see it's an aluminum head so you got to be careful with this stuff guys you just can't willy-nilly slap something like this together so I'll have to pull them plugs out of there just so I don't break them off all right I'm gonna call it quits for today so there it is pretty pretty nerve-wracking working around that tire right above that tire so I'll probably have to let some air out of it so don't explode all right guys that's it for today she barely met the mental edging gone for now and we'll see you guys in the next one I'm gonna do a garden update today it's going pretty good while an onion update not really planted a garden the tomatoes have not come up yet they take five to ten days so we'll see what happens this week with those and again we'll see you in the next one say bye bro say bye all right bye guys have a good one