I DIY Fixed My Eclipse GSX Blown Head Gasket & Then This Happened! You Guys Warned Me!! DSM Life!

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I want to see the lighting so bad. It’s officially the most abandoned legit street truck on earth.

You have a lot of faith in the straightness of Home Depot wood lol.

I have to say that your content is not only informative but always fun to watch. I am now retired but I still love to learn, even though I haven’t twisted a wrench since around 2012 and left the automotive industry. I retired due to an injury early and now I let my son in law who is a mechanic at a dealership take care of most of my needs. Thanks again for the great content.

A common upgrade is the s90 throttle body. They are a very nice upgrade but out of the box they are known to leak due to the lack of seals. I personally rebuild them and am well known on the FB groups for this service. I used to rebuild the OEM units as well but being they are getting so old and beat up it was beginning to be not worth my time with them. If you are interested in an s90 rebuild service feel free to reach out, I would be more than happy to help out.

28:23 You can change the starter with the intake manifold on. Have to fish it in from the side but it’s better than removing the whole intake manifold. Definitely a good “while you’re in there” replacement!

Hey Alex. The high idle could be that the throttle body is not grounding. There is a metal strap from the factory that connects the TB with the intake, which i did not see. I had this issue with my 1G. Try connecting a wire from the TB to a good ground. Good luck!

Anybody wait for Saturday morning for these to drop? I feel like this is like my new version of old school Saturday morning cartoons.

Leave the intake and exhaust on when pulling the head. Former Mitsubishi dealer tech here. I’ve pulled a ton of those heads, usually from snapped timing belts.

DSM life, more time in the shop than on the street but for those 5 minutes every couple months that they do work, perfection. lol

@38:23 Alex - "once you start making things look pretty....." Also Alex: spot of oil in between eyebrows

Had a 1G with 289,000 miles unopened engine. Took a balancer pulley at about 125k. Clutch master and slave at about 150k. T-case seal under warranty at about 50k, stock exhaust manifold was cracked when we finally upgraded turbo at 245is mark. I’ve owned over 100 DSM’s In the 90’s early 2000’s. 5 of which were keepers and daily’s and racers. Other than crankwalk in 2G’s, reliability was never an issue. In the high mileage cars(100k) leaking capacitors in 1g ECU’S was an issue. 80’s electronics it’s to be expected. I could go on all day. Lol. Love the DSM content.

The head gasket on my Honda Accord coupe leaked oil from the day I bought it, and it kept getting bigger every time I drove the car. I bought the car from the shop I work at (they had replaced the head gasket a year before I started working there). I take the head off in my home garage and I found out why it was leaking: the block was prepped wrong, the surface was much too rough for a MLS gasket, while the cylinder head was perfectly smooth from the machine shop. The rough block surface was acting as a ratchet on the lower layer of the MLS gasket and pulling it into the cooling jacket around the cylinders, and giving the oil passage an exit out of the engine’s corner (just like the Eclipse). I used a carbide scraper to smooth out the block surface (by hand!) and put the new MLS on, and reinstalled the head and everything. A year after: no leaks. While I was working on the engine, I was going to ask my then coworker (who did the head gasket the first time) about what he did to my car.....but he was doing another head gasket on a Jeep and I saw him cleaning the block surface with a GREEN 3M bristle disc and all my questions were answered without saying a word to him. (He works somewhere else now, and that Jeep came back with leaking head gaskets)

I know this will sound " Ass -Kissy " but, I wanna say thankyou for your great videos. Every Saturday after a long hard week, I grab my morning coffee and enjoy my quiet time watching your videos. Thankyou for making my weekends.

Every week I'm pretty amazed how this guy is able to produce interesting content - consistently. Not easy to do (at all). Tip of the hat to the "legitimacy" of LegitStreetCars!

44:53 about somes it up. I mean that sounds almost exactly like the DSM guy we all know or knew back in the day. However the truth is that we all still really like the things regardless. And it realistically is just a matter of having enough dedication and space to continue to be their caretakers. And to those that do, thank you and i salute.

Alex, I had an oil can, just like the one you're using. I was a jet aircraft mechanic in the Airforce, and I was able to keep it when I got discharged. Although it wasn't working, but I was able to fix it, and it's been 50 years now, and it's still working fine.

Dude! I have the EXACT same issue with my 2006 BMW 525i I completely rebuilt. THANK YOU! I used a thinner gasket to experiment and it bit me in the ass. I'm so glad to have the same issues as you. When you address them, I learn awesome new techniques. ALEX for President?

Welcome to the joys of Idle problems on these. Same issues for Evo 1-3, VR4 etc. Due to the age as you pointed out the seals go on them. They are hard to fix and from memory there was no kit avail to fix the shaft seal only that other one. Usually only way to fully fix is aftermarket throttle body/ecu to bypass all of that nonesense. Or try other used ones and hopefuly one is in better cond. Common fault is the high idle you are experiencing or the idle hunt when the coolant is warmed. Good luck!

I'm from Australia and look forward to Ur videos every Sunday morning