Quote Originally Posted by mr_maxime View Post
I hadnt seen any in the paperwork I had. Unless the shop broke it during the gasket job I had done, I can't see a specific reason how it would have been mishandled before that.

Other thing i can think of is the time I drove over a chunk of semi tire. It bent a horn bracket and someone knocked the ignition coil wire out of the connector. May have also hit the exhaust.
Not likely, that’s a fatigue fracture from heat cycling. The cylinder head exhaust studs are famous for thermal fracturing especially on the cylinder ports closest to the crossover pipe. Both of my forward studs were broken when I got my car 25 years ago. 30k on it then. If the crossover pipe slip joint becomes frozen, the thermal expansion of the pipe puts undue stresses on those forward most studs.


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