Leaky cover gasket

A rather annoying problem with my car is the leaky valve cover gasket which seeps oil whenever the engine is running. the oil spills all over the side of the engine making it messy and yucky and stupid. Very stupid. =/

So, I went out to buy a new gasket for it, costs about RM40 a piece. The SOHC cover is much much cheaper but whatever.

Starting to work on the car…. it is not necessary to remove the air filter, but i was working on another project at the same time. Labeled each sparkplug the opened the cover. The cover is quite easy to remove, as all the screws can be seen from the top of the car, except for the 2 screws at the side of the head where the timing belt cover is. Once everything is off, just replace the gasket with a new one, add silicon and put back the same way that you took it out.

I got itchy fingered and wanted to wash my gasket head as it was frikken dirty. Washed with some engine degreaser, available at Pasar road.

I got even more itchy fingered and decided I should freshen up the engine’s outlook. So i sprayed the proton words silver and used a file to grind off the top of the DOHC wording. Gaya tuh! =D
  
So now, the top of the engine is not leaking anymore. Which is good.

Stupid side-wanking gearknob. =/

As you can see, for the proton wira/93’ mirages, the manual gearknob is slightly slanted towards the drivers side. i find this pointless and stupid and annoying to look at. And annoying. In this pic the car looks like it’s in 5th, right? No. it’s in neutral. =S

So, I bended it back with a hammer. A big hammer. Taking out the gear console panel thingy was simple as unscrewing it, any simple person would know how to remove it. I also switched out the old long gearknob for a round PINK one! Much nicer to shift now, and neutral actually LOOKS like neutral again. =)

Starting out

Someone gave me the idea of archiving what i'm doing to my car. Since I work on it all the time, it rarely does come out of the house. Interior and exterior was standard expect for imitation O.Z. ultrleggera rims. The dashboard had some kind of dent at the passenger side and it was using some crappy old CD/cassette player. Steering wheel is original Momo, but the leather is just rotten. =P

It's just a crapp dogg old 97' Proton Putra. Also called the 93’ Mitsubishi Mirage/ Dodge Colt. Engine is a fairly stock standard 4G93. I bought it in May this year, without much thought apparently.

I changed the headlights right after I bought it, the original ones were dayummmm outdated and boring. The new ones freshens the car up abit.

It's not really in tip-top condition. It's been through an accident, it's kinda leaky, rusty roof, doesnt have a clean paint job, and cut springs. And I paid about market price for it. =S

I guess the biggest bummer about the car was the accident that I didnt know about until after buying it.

At least the engine runs fine (I think) :)