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blueliner
09-02-2007, 09:05 AM
anyone have any issues with their water pressure gauge after installing headers??? mine doesn't work right now. correct me if i'm wrong. but that clear super thin hose that comes off the back of the engine(496 ho) is the pressure hose??? when i look at it it looks like there is some air in it (i can see some water but not a lot. when revvin the engine doesn't appear to be any more going through the tube. i know that it works on back pressure... has the cmi's, since the water is just flowing through now, is it unrestricted and causing my gauge to fail??? or what else could be causing it. i have no movement on it at all. my tech and i drove around all day yesterday, temp was fine, evrything else is fine. damn, the dual ram full hydraulic steering is sweet!!!! only complaint is less manuverability with the new steering( can't make as tight a turn) oh yeah the headers sounds unreal!!!!
thanks in advance

gcarter
09-02-2007, 09:31 AM
It's been my experience that lines to gauges don't have flow through them. They dead end at the gauge.
But I've never looked at a 496 closely.

Carl C
09-02-2007, 05:53 PM
Mine still works. Something might have gotten pinched during the installation.

LKSD
09-03-2007, 07:28 AM
Mine still works. Something might have gotten pinched during the installation.

That is my thought as well.. :) Jamie / Lakeside


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