This is just for whatever amusement it brings to someone. I changed my wife's valve cover gasket on her 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS 2.4 SOHC 4cyl 5-speed.
I got the valve cover gasket and the 4 spark plug seals. Oil had been leaking on the spark plugs (they were covered), and also leaking out the front a little. Enough to make it use around a quart every 1800 miles. I'm hoping it drops down to almost nothing, now. The gasket and seals were hard as a rock. Nice, fresh rubber in there, now.
She got it with around 120k on it, now it's around 150 or 160k. It was 2-2.5 quarts low on oil when she got it (4.2 quart capacity). Probably every OCI was dino, ran low, for 8000+ miles. Went to Castrol GTX 10w30 for about 25k miles, and now we are giving it some Castrol Syntec 0W-30. Can't have it leaking that stuff out, lol. BTW, no, the syn didn't make it leak, it was leaking before, and as far as I could tell, the leaking never changed. But, I've only had the GC in for about 2500 miles.
I got the valve cover gasket and the 4 spark plug seals. Oil had been leaking on the spark plugs (they were covered), and also leaking out the front a little. Enough to make it use around a quart every 1800 miles. I'm hoping it drops down to almost nothing, now. The gasket and seals were hard as a rock. Nice, fresh rubber in there, now.
She got it with around 120k on it, now it's around 150 or 160k. It was 2-2.5 quarts low on oil when she got it (4.2 quart capacity). Probably every OCI was dino, ran low, for 8000+ miles. Went to Castrol GTX 10w30 for about 25k miles, and now we are giving it some Castrol Syntec 0W-30. Can't have it leaking that stuff out, lol. BTW, no, the syn didn't make it leak, it was leaking before, and as far as I could tell, the leaking never changed. But, I've only had the GC in for about 2500 miles.
