After having my camshaft oil seals leak heaps of times now, and now my spark plug tube seals leak, this is due to the aftermarket seals are of a cheaper quality seal and actually not the exact same size as OEM causing me these headaches. It could just be me but im leaning more towards aftermarket seals not as good as oem,


And mitsubishi is starting to run out of parts for these things, mabey we should do a BULK order for parts we KNOW are needed down the track if we plan on keeping these cars and do a massive group buy and get a much better price, each state should do their own buy

Also on a completely separate note, if running a oil catch can, make sure damn well you have the correct fittings, otherwise you will cause excess pressure in your head BLOWING out your seals, my catch can is fine, but after my mate in hes 380 ran hes (different fittings) he said it started to run like a dog, so took alook at it and unplug the hose going back into the intake and could head pressure building up like crazy trying to escape...We found that the baffles in the catch can where to damn small and not allowing a free flow, after changing the catch can it ran smooth as butter...

I did find running a catch vent to atmosphere ( i know total defect) does actually help a "little" with my backfiring while off throttle, but it has made it SPIT more crazy sounding like a RB motor hitting limiter during high rpm shifts (ive got livo exhaust on it)....

I have also noted the car does breath/respond better during cruising (this could be the pablo effect)


A very minimal amount of oil goes through the can tho, VERY MINIMAL, but the VAPORS geez take a sniff of the filter on the can while running you will faint, I think to myself " car 1 environment 0" hahaha

Funny thing is that these seals are generally not made by Mitsubishi, take the cam and crank seals, these are NOK, exactly the same as the ones supplied in most better quality kits. The tube seals, we have used ACL (until they went bust) and then Permatex for years and never had an issue with a properly fitted seal.

Many of the parts are available from Japan out of other model cars IF you can get the part number and know what car they are from, most of these parts Mitsubishi claim not available here I get from Japan and in some cases sell back to dealers myself. Take the NM Pajero solonoids for the 4x4 selection, these are available but are $304.45 thorugh MMAL, through Japan the same part is about $125.00

hm, mabey its the way i drive then HAHAHA, nah but sereriously 2 camshaft seals bust in less than 10,000kms and oem lasted 160,000kms


ill be chucking in oem and see how it goes, but yeh, big shock with these parts availability, u would think local made part they will keep parts on stock for a while

Ad Cam and crank seals used by mites in SA were Japanese made NOK and both cam Seals and plug tubes for Magna and 380 Were the same thus supply will not bean issue given these same parts are also used on many other M its engines.