Did your kit include metal collector gaskets? If yes did you use them or discard them.

 

mine just had a really round flange that connects to the y pipe. by really round i mean it looks like a tennis ball that has a hole in it.

 

That is how my pacesetters are, but for some reason I thought there might have been some metal rings in the kit like this



I'm pretty sure I have an exhaust leak that I was trying to fix. I tossed the rings after I put the headers in over a year ago, but... finally decided to do something about it. Being the edelbrock gaskets are the only ones I could find... i ordered them but they do not fit. The edelbrock gaskets have a different design. (non tennis ball). I called pacesetter today to see if I am crazy for thinking the kit included them... and he said on an 01 they didn't include them but on a 97 or 98 / below they did? I bought the kit from another member so they may have not been for an 01. Im not sure... either way he said he could sell them to me if I really wanted them. What did the rest of ya's do?

 

i bought felpro gaskets for my longtubes just to be safe , usally a cheap headers going to throw in cheap gaskets

 

i got some used pacesetter headers also and it looks like there are donut gaskets on it that were crushed a little bit and i have a slight leak there also....let us know if ya find anything out

 

Do they look like coned metal rings? I talked to the tech today and he said that their kit for my truck didn't include them. I could have swore they did come with them... but then again maybe that was the other set of headers. He kept insisting that I can get a set of stock gaskets and he couldn't grasp that they our trucks (v6, v8) don't come with them stock. None the less after I unbolted the y last night and noticed the bolts were pretty loose, i rebolted the y-pipe up nice and tight this afternoon and calling it done. Followed up with an oil change, and a round of seafoam

 

do you have sstage 8 locking bolts, i heard if you dont have locking bolts that bolts come loose and messes up the gaskets

 

my summit shorties (pacesetters) came with some crappy donut gaskets. they didnt really do anything. when i put my new cat on, i just lined them up perfectly enough that i didnt need a gasket and tightened enough to make sure there were no leaks.

 

Yes I have stage 8's.

k, thats what was done the first time... maybe it really wasn't leaking there... idk :/ haha case closed either way. I bolted it back up and am done with it.

 

since mine were used, im not sure if it is donut on there or not, but it does look like it