I need to do this on the Cherokee.

I’ve had a persistent leak at the valve cover for a while now that I think is causing some starting issues when the car gets hot (oil soaked starter) so maybe it’s time to get on it.

Of course, I don’t know if the oil is really the problem….and oil is cheap to add (I could do that forever)…but I already have the gasket from some good intentions about 6 years ago….and a used starter is pretty cheap….so….maybe this time I’ll do what I should have done a while back….and change both the gasket and the starter.

When you have over 270,000 miles on a vehicle that gets abusively driven everyday, it could be a lot of things that are wrong.

That’s the puzzle of cars: the thing that might be causing the problem could go deeper than just fixing the problem.

You have to fix what’s causing the problem, too.

That’s like a Zen puzzle or something, huh?

What you see isn’t always what’s really going on.

I don’t know…..sometimes.

Everything is like that, though.

You never know what the real problem is until you get closer to fixing it and get to have that “OH!” moment.

When something sort of works it’s easy to put fixing it on the back burner for a while.

“Sort of works….most of the time” is a bugger.