Thanks for ALL the help guys! I REALLY appreciate it and this forum! I replaced the valve cover gasket and spark plug gaskets as well. I followed the guide posted above, plus I put a very light bead of silicone on the head to help seal the valve cover to it. I still think I may have an issue with the valve cover itself though as it was torqued down pretty well and I probably have some hairline cracks in it that I can't really see. However, right now, all I can do is the gaskets and see what happens. I put in new wires/plugs as well. I just need to get the car running and I know if I order a valve cover, it'll take a few days to get here. If I do end up getting one, I'll just buy the gasket kit again and redo it all.

The reason I got this car though, was because it was VERY cheap; only $800 and I expected there to be some issues with the car, that's a given. However, from reading and searching A LOT of threads, it seems that these cars aren't very dependable and I'm just wondering if that's true. Please don't get me wrong, I'm DEFINITELY not slamming the car or anything but I'm just wondering how much truth there is to that. I also have a '01 Vette and we kid the C4 guys A LOT on the forum and joke about the cars not being dependable, however, they are very dependable (IF maintained properly)and I'm just wonderin if the same kind of ribbing is going on here. Heck, there's even one guy here who has a sig that says somethin like "Owning a DSM is great....the 3 days out of the month its running" or somethin like that.

Thanks again everyone!