Snow White
Member
Well I gotta chime in now on options as I am at the end of mine.
I had one stock manifold replaced while under warranty. Out of warranty the drivers side cracked in the same place as everyone else's.
So I did all the research and went with the AFE purchased from American Truck since I'm in CA.
Only lasted about 7k and welds started cracking.
While A.T. was Useless after 30 days AFE sent out replacements right away and this is where my Nightmare has begun!
They told me that they did a redesign to "IMPROVE" them so I was excited to recieve the New and Improved ones.
Immediately I saw how warped and cupped the new base plates were but didn't have too many options so I decided to Try and see if the would torque out since a pair of camps on a bench seemed to work.
Well after all the work and Finally getting those hard to reach bolts in...
I notice they left the Air Port Flange off! See pics.
I put the old one one cause I can't go without a vehicle and contacted them.
Their Response was
"I am being told that the air port flange delete is a design change and that is now how they are made...."
INCONCEIVABLE!
Seriously ready to go back to stock and hope that Redesign is better.
BTW, Best price I can find on stock kits is about $90 per side now.
Enter, another day wasted on what shouldn't be an issue!
I had one stock manifold replaced while under warranty. Out of warranty the drivers side cracked in the same place as everyone else's.
So I did all the research and went with the AFE purchased from American Truck since I'm in CA.
Only lasted about 7k and welds started cracking.
While A.T. was Useless after 30 days AFE sent out replacements right away and this is where my Nightmare has begun!
They told me that they did a redesign to "IMPROVE" them so I was excited to recieve the New and Improved ones.
Immediately I saw how warped and cupped the new base plates were but didn't have too many options so I decided to Try and see if the would torque out since a pair of camps on a bench seemed to work.
Well after all the work and Finally getting those hard to reach bolts in...
I notice they left the Air Port Flange off! See pics.
I put the old one one cause I can't go without a vehicle and contacted them.
Their Response was
"I am being told that the air port flange delete is a design change and that is now how they are made...."
INCONCEIVABLE!
Seriously ready to go back to stock and hope that Redesign is better.
BTW, Best price I can find on stock kits is about $90 per side now.
Enter, another day wasted on what shouldn't be an issue!
