decided to put headers on my truck, i was looking at the bbk chrome headers, and just wanted some opinions on them.

 

What you should also look at is , the weld around each port, should stick up 1.16" or more , so when you put your gasket in place it well seat tight, i have headers on my F-250 (390) 75 truck and every time i do a starter i have to pull the header off , a slight pain ! ! yours may be different?

 

What year truck? Which engine?

 

it is a 98 with the 4.6, after doing some reading i went ahead and ordered the gibson stainless steel headers.

 

I've heard good things about Gibson headers.. Smart move with the stainless. Let us know how everything works out after the installation.. Dan

 

will do, it will probably be a couple of weeks, by the time they come and i get them installed, still deciding if i should do it myslef, or take it in, it looks fairly simple, i just hate to break of a bolt or something.

 

I just put the Gibson stainless-steel headers on my truck two weekends ago. It wasn't as big of a process as I thought it might be, it took about 4.5 hours to do both sides.

I noticed a difference in power and a little sound difference as well, not to mention I'm getting about another mile per gallon on my 5.4L engine now.

Just an FYI, I got the headers which came with all the bolts needed supposedly, but one of the bolts they provided was too long to fit into the spot. So I had to go to the local hardware store and get a 2 1/4 inch long half inch bolt... I'm not sure why they didn't send a bolt that would actually fit, but they did. I thought I made the mistake at first and was using the wrong bolts, but they are the only ones that even come close to fitting. Anyway, thats just a heads up for you

Hope you like the headers.

 

anyone know where I can get a hold of some headers for a 5.0 mercury mountaineer?

 

well, i got the headers put on, all i have left now it to wait till my dipstick tube comes in that i managed to break well trying to get it out. Intall was not to bad, passenger side was simple, well drivers was a bit more complex, well removing the drivers side manifold i broke one of the studs off, leaving only about a inch exposed, i tried welding a nut on the end of it, but it was seized so bad in the head, that the weld on the nut broke from wrenching on it so hard, so i ended up leaving that stud in, i was able in get a nut started on it, so i think it will be ok, i am going to just tack weld the nut on there so it won't back off, i hate to but i see no other way at this point, another thing was getting the 4 bolts out of front driveshaft, finally after two days of soaking them with wd40, i was able to free them, with a wrench and a piece of pipe, and lots of force. I recommend if one wants headers, don't wait till truck has 150,000 miles on it, things are really rusted in them by than. Egr was also fun, took a few times with torch to get that out. But all in all it went well, just not as good as i was hoping. now i just wait for the dipstick tube to come in so i can fire it up.

 

well still waiting for my dipstick tube to come in so i can drive it, but i just couldn't wait any longer to hear it so i fired it up, and i can definelty notice a differnce in sound, but i got another problem, header is leaking in same spot as manifold was.