Post retarded shit automakers do

Tagesdosis

That's standard stuff.
Chevy, Nissan, Toyota, and probably more all do it.

I bought a bag of 20 for $1 from china, do the same and just fuck the old ones up without a care

tasty

I managed to blow one up actually. Never really found out what gave first but a connecting rod ended up hitting a hole 5 inches in diameter in the block.

home improvement stores have them over by the machine screws and stuff if you wanna check that out too

Must be a 3800? If thats yours, replace those coolant elbows with the metal ones.

>Designing cars for a specific environment.
That's shit engineering desu.

A street version with a twin turbo voodoo would have been amazing.

To be fair, the LS400's with this problem are also like a bajillion years old. So the engineers didn't develop a brand new type of rubber material that could last 20+ years in a hot engine bay without getting hard and leaky... That's kind of a stupid complaint.