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I just joined the "Cracked Manifold Club". I have a replacement coming for the cracked right manifold on my Titan. The truck has 63,000 miles on it.
It got me to thinking: this seems a bit soon to bust a manifold. But then I was chatting with a buddy who owns a Tacoma, and his is busted also. So it's not just us.
I thought it might be interesting to look for common items among us of The Cracked Manifold Club. Maybe it might be valuable in providing Nissan with some feedback toward a small design change if necessary. When you vote, look at the 80% duty of your truck. I mean if you go hunting for Hemis, then yeah, it's racing. Although we're good law-abiding citizens and don't really do that. (Wink, wink) For towing, if you tow more than just an occasional weekend U-haul, mark that. Hope that helps define it a bit.
It'll be interesting to see how the poll turns out.
On a side note, I first thought that perhaps car makers are going a bit light on the manifolds to save weight, or that maybe the expansion coefficients are just different enough that the manifold gives up after a shorter period of time.
I've owned a whole bunch of cars and trucks, so the cracked manifold doesn't bother me. It's just something that happens. Everybody gets a busted manifold from time to time. In all the cars and trucks I've owned, I've replaced seven exhaust manifolds. So this is nothing new.
Thanks for voting.
I just joined the "Cracked Manifold Club". I have a replacement coming for the cracked right manifold on my Titan. The truck has 63,000 miles on it.
It got me to thinking: this seems a bit soon to bust a manifold. But then I was chatting with a buddy who owns a Tacoma, and his is busted also. So it's not just us.
I thought it might be interesting to look for common items among us of The Cracked Manifold Club. Maybe it might be valuable in providing Nissan with some feedback toward a small design change if necessary. When you vote, look at the 80% duty of your truck. I mean if you go hunting for Hemis, then yeah, it's racing. Although we're good law-abiding citizens and don't really do that. (Wink, wink) For towing, if you tow more than just an occasional weekend U-haul, mark that. Hope that helps define it a bit.
It'll be interesting to see how the poll turns out.
On a side note, I first thought that perhaps car makers are going a bit light on the manifolds to save weight, or that maybe the expansion coefficients are just different enough that the manifold gives up after a shorter period of time.
I've owned a whole bunch of cars and trucks, so the cracked manifold doesn't bother me. It's just something that happens. Everybody gets a busted manifold from time to time. In all the cars and trucks I've owned, I've replaced seven exhaust manifolds. So this is nothing new.
Thanks for voting.
I will probably be replacing the titans manifolds with JBA short tube headers....
