time to speak my mind..........a pressure test will tell you two things yes??... 1= headers are sealed with no cracks... 2= headers are not sealed and you have cracks..........so lets say they test good and the next time you run the boat one of the inner tubes cracks and dumps water into a cylinder. how would you feel then? sealed today, cracked tomorrow! are you really going to leak test everyday?.......change em and be done

Just an update..... I ordered the Hardin hurricanes and the first set didn't go so well. One of the headers was used! It had lots of carbon in the tubes and gasket material on the flange. It seemed to have several hours on it. The seconded header had never been ran but it was not in good condition. It was all nicked up and had several imperfections. Also no instructions, gaskets or hardware was included. Had to reschedule our six day boating vacation! Not pleased! Hmm? Is this a coincidence or just what I get for looking into who actually makes the headers? Hardin took full responsibility for the mistake and my "new" set will arrive this week. I hope I am not disappointed again. I didn't ask for anything for my troubles because mistakes do happen. However I can not believe they did not offer to overnight the replacements once they received the first set back.

I wonder sometimes if some of these companies think were just stupid hicks that won't even notice them trying to pass off their garbage . Something very similar happened to me a while back . Do mistakes happen , yes , but is it just the dumbazz packing your goods or is someone trying to insult our intelligence . Either way it really pizzes me off . I certainly hope you paid $0.00 for all the shipping . Thank you for the heads up . the deep

Well we definitely are taking full responsibility . If there's one think were not above it is human mistakes. And as our company grows we keep increasing personnel. Our newest staff member pulled a wrong box and to our dismay it did end up to you. We don't sell used headers and a blind man could have seen this header was used there would be no way to sell or pass such an object off it is sincerely just a mistake we are very apologetic for our mistake and inconvenience .

How do you pressure test while still in the boat?
thanks,
Dean

The deep, Hardin did cover all shipping costs. I am not giving you or anyone else a "heads up" or attempting to sway anyone away from Hardin. This stuff happens and they made it right. To be honest I'm glad we still live in a world with natural human error not ran completely by robots.

Ok rat , have it your way .....

Your company is to be commended for this . Admitting a mistake and apologizing publicly is a tough thing to do but put you right at the top in my book . Nuff said....

Pressure testing while in the boat. Disconnect all the rubber hoses connected to header. Plug and seal ports. Attach guage to 1 port. Pump to 10 psi.....RISK..... If you have a leak there is a chance that you will force water out of the crack or pinholed header into a open valve and into a cylinder.