Anyone had good luck with a mahine shop in Oregon that is well versed with Mitsu heads? I know a couple that I trust with Chrysler V8s, but they don't exactly know the ins and outs of 6G72 heads!

In the last 3000 miles, the valve seals finally went on my truck. Just turned over 170K. Stem seals went from being pretty good to completely shot, with LOTS of oil burning. Also, seems I just blew an exhaust manifold gasket, probably the exhaust valve with the worst stem seal. I'm sure that valve was running pretty hot with all that oil dripping on it. Truck is parked for now. Guess I'll be yanking the heads this weekend... Might as well rebuild the heads and drop some new VLAs in there.


1994 3.0L 4x4 pickup.
4.62 gears (4.22 stock), 33x10.5 BFG MTs. LSD rear. Five speed trans. 172K
Previously owned Mitsubishis:
1986 2.6L 4x4 Mighty Max, 1985 2.6L 4x4 D50
1987 2.6L Raider, 1989 3.0L Raider
1995 Montero SR