Q: Loud noise coming from underneath the car muffler leak manifold

asked by on February 15, 2017

Only hear noise sometime in the morning when cranking the car up noise will go away until I cut the car off crank it back again noise returned seems like it's losses speed just noise coming from under the car sounds like it could be coming from manifold gasket

My car has 176000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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