Crankwalk was most common with the 95-96 eclipses. Their motors are slightly different from the 97+ 2gens. If your gonna get an eclipse, then you might as well get used to working on it all the time. I don't think there's anyone who posted here who doesn't have something wrong with there DSM.

Mine has 150k+ miles on it. Only thing that's gone wrong is a bad oil pump.