So I have basically put my dsm on one day a week drive duty recently just because she has 217k miles on her and my wife doesn't work :-). So the other day I got home and I noticed some spots underneath, I thought to myself its just oil, but it looked like more than i saw originally when I parked it last Friday. So i got down to check it out just to make sure, and yup it was oil, but then i saw something...

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So last Saturday I was all pumped to change the valve cover gasket and change out my fuel filter thinking that neither one should take that long or be that much work, But as we all know its a dsm anything is possible. So Anyway I got up bright and early and headed to the hobby shop on base, got my stall pulled in and got to work. Jacked up the rear of the car disconnected the fuel pump and started...

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So the last few days I have been dealing with a coolant leak that just wont go. First I thought it was a bolt that wouldn't tighten down, so I tapped it out to one size bigger gasketed it up and put it on. Still leaked but was leaking from the bottom of the thermostat housing. So I tried to do it the lazy way and just slather gasket stuff all around the outside of the thermostat housing. This time...

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So today nothing broke or anything like that. Just Ordered some gaskets 2 for the thermostat and some crush washers for the turbo. After I left mitsubishi I felt like i was finally going to get rid of all the little leaks I had only to find out that the leak that I thought was coolant was actually oil coming from the valve cover and the half moon woot more stuff to order. As I was leaving I saw...

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Well, got to do my first little bit of work on the car woot. The other day as I was pulling through the main gates to get on to base, I was rolling up my window and noticed it was going up really slow and the radio cut out, I was liek what the hell? So then i noticed my headlights were going out and my dash lights were pretty much no existent. Oh gawd what now, the car managed to run just long...

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