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.

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.

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!

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.

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

I would 100% replace the starter while in there. That $100 or so is super cheap insurance from a future broker down in a parking lot you are guaranteed to get. Likely a few weeks or months after you are done. It never fails, Murphy comes back Everytime!!!

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

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

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!

Something about an Eclipse and danger to manifold just brings warm fuzzies to my soul.

Finally, week is now complete 😅

I think you might become more and more like Saran-n-Tuned... The queen of car cleaning! 😄Keep up the awesome work! 😛👍

I feel your pain, I had this exact issue with it seeping oil in one corner (mine's a diesel Audi though). I think in my case I was supplied a cheap HG. Last time the head needed replacement for an unrelated issue so got the HG from the same supplier. The replacement I just fitted today looked better quality so knock on wood this one shouldn't leak 🤞

I would really, really not use a chunk of wood for decking a head. Its going to be no where near flat and could cause major problems. The proper way to diy it is using a chunk of tempered glass. Ive done it before and got the head to under 2 thou across the deck.

I used to run an AWD dyno shop that focused on 1G and 2G DSMs. I probably owned 30 of them over the years, mostly 1Gs. Haven't touched a DSM in almost 12 years. Very fun to see someone wrenching on one of these :) I'm surprised headstuds weren't used and you didn't do a balancer delete. Also the timing belt tensioner wasn't replaced? I would almost always replace that guy since it will wreck your motor if it fails.

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!