About a year ago i had a slight leak from the exhaust manifold where it had broken 2 nuts off, 1 on each end of the manifold, so i removed it and had the manifold sand blasted, painted and the face of it professionaly machined and i put all new studs in and a new gasket so i had done the lot. Anyways about 2 months ago it suddenly got loud under the hood so i figured i may need to tighten up the bolts thinking it was slightly leaking, anyways i removed everything i had to so i could get to it and when i removed the heat shield i nearly fainted, it had snapped clean in half......
All my hard work was for nothing.... i vaugly remember seeing i faint line on it and thinking it was a crack but after i gave it a bit of a sand it went away, then i thought stuff it this is going to take forever to clean properly so i took it to get sand blasted, i carnt remember where the line was so i dont know if it was where its snapped or not. Has anyone seen this before or had it happen to them