The autolight that I bought was re-manufactured. The acid bath they used to clean it ate the threads. I had to but a put on it <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" />

I bought a OEM from the dealer for around $200 but they gave me the wrong part. I returned it and I couldn't wait weeks for another. The autolight works great for the last two years. The lifetype warrenty does not apply if it's got oil on it <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

valve cover gasket is around $15 for Felpro and a tube of high temp RTV. It took me 1.5 hours to replace on the the 2.6. It's a fairly easy job, the hardest part is in the back over the camshaft hump. Clean it good and get a nice coat of RTV. Let it sit for a few hours and you should be good to go.

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Felpro makes a pretty good VC gasket for a 2.6, but you'll thank yourself later if you can get an OE. It's fatter and seals up far better than the Felpro.

On my turbo engine, I initially put the Felpro on for a test fit and didn't like the fact that I was going to have to use more than generous smears of RTV in several places. In fact, the one I had wouldn't stay in the grove on the VC without being glued in.

Ordered an OE and had it in two days - $9 - and it fit like it was supposed to. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Just a suggestion if you can spare the time.

You had to what on where? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

The gasket I have on there now is a Fel-Pro rubber gasket -- I didn't use any RTV on it when I installed it almost 70K miles ago. I've never had a leak anywhere in the area until about the last 5-6 weeks (and I'm still not sure it's the valve cover).

I think I'll replace the valve cover gasket, the fuel pump gasket, and the distributor gasket, just to be sure.

Yeah Yeah, I told my fingers to type "put a bolt on it" but sometimes they have a mind of their own. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

There's also the balance shaft cover in that general area that could leak as well. It's the funny shaped plate on the side of the block under the intake manifold. It has a gasket and two bolt holes. I put a couple of o-rings under the bolts just because...

Be careful with that one. The two bolts are small. I rang one off installing the cover and it didn't seem like I was torquing much at all. Could have been a bad bolt or could have been that it was near the end of the day and I was tired/not paying attention.

Fortunately, the engine was still on the stand. So, I removed the cover, got the broken bolt out and quit for the evening. Went back the next morning fresh and reinstalled to factory torque without incident.

On my 3.0 '91 I had to try three different starters before the place I went to in Huntington Beach finally just rebuit mine. That darn starter problem was the first time a Monty has ever standed me - in the middle of some sand dunes deep in Mexico.

After whacking the solinoid a few times, I finally pulled the starter and turned it by hand, reinstalled it and it finally fired up. That caused us to head home right then, and I didn't shut the motor off the entire way - a little scarying filling it up with the motor running, but we made it. That starter just gave up the ghost all at once and I never did get it turn over the motor again.

Not sure why the other rebuilts didn't work for me, but the dealer cost for one was waaay out of the question. I do recall some issue with the starters being Montero-specific (not a long enough throw to engage the fly wheel). Good luck, and definitley go with the starters with a warranty of some sort.

Good luck,

Jim