mine runs great like always. Someone forget to tell my car it is suposed to be unreliable

 

haha you wait til you hit 100k Tom or your tranny drops or something

Got my car running, just need to set electrical ignition timing. No more oil leak woo woo!

 

I take to good of care of my car for that. I change my spark plugs once a week my oil once a month and my tranny fluid from time to time. Also just flushed the radiater sunday because i felt like it. I`ve been told i`m alittle anal about the car.


congrats on getting your car running again.

 

That reminds me, I've got to start looking for the cause of that little pool of oil that greeted me when I went to change my spark plugs. My stopgap solution was to mop it up with a paper towel, put the cover back on and back away from the car as if I'd never seen it. I'm figuring there's at least a 1% chance that will make it go away on it's own.

If not, there was a thread on tampabaydsm where somebody had the same problem, I think they said they just had a cracked valve cover or it was improperly torqued down or something. I'll have to go find that thread again.

 

mine works

maybe should go dsm

 

Jerry said it best, "Mitsus are tricky, but there's nothing better bang for the buck." I really don't think DSMs are unreliable, I think that they are just tricky and you have to do perfect repairs or they'll make you regret it.

However, I think everyone will agree when they run, damn they fuckin run

LOL I've heard stories from Mike, but you know what. More power to you if it's working out for ya. (once a week though? damn )

I'm prolly just as careful with my car though, I never beat on it. Might be a street car thing?

Thanks for the congrats on the car, all I gotta do is set ignition timing and hopefully it'll be smooth sailin on the street for awhile, especially with the new toys I have to play with, thanks for the 550s btw

Try replaced the spark plug well seals on the valve cover. If that doesn't work, valve covers do crack often, and JB weld is your friend

 

Mine too. The only problem i have with it is the axle seals are leaking a little. but no big deal i have the new ones to put in.