Exhaust Noise

G’s Jeep

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San Mateo, CA, USA
It sounds like a hair buzzer but much more vulgar. I looked and there is no donut gasket. This is a 2.5l 1999 4 banger. It does not have an manifold leak. I stuck a vacuum in pushing air through and did the spray soapy water test. There is one small leak where the manifold meats the down pipe-but very small bubbles. I think its a broken catalytic converter but what do you guys think?! Here are some sounds of what it sounds like.
 

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Start by fixing that hole in the manifold. Small hole or not, sometimes that's all it takes to make an obnoxious sound.

Even some JB Weld SteelStik would take care of that and at least rule it out pretty quickly.