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boosted86

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Sep 7, 2005
Weston, Florida
i just recently changed my front main seal, because of a oil leakage problem i had(really bad) but there is still oil comming out and i don't know what it is, I'm not sure to change all the seals up front(4 of them i believe). now all of this shi* started happening after my oil pump hose came off for some reason and all my oil basically drained out of the car. i was only driving it for like 30 sec when my oil light came on. i proceed to pull over , but before i even had the chance to. the car shut off on me and made a really loud metal to metal thump. i toed it home and when i took off the valve cover i saw that the a 1 cam journal had looked like it grind ed by a grinder, as so did the bearing. any way i rebuilt the head and reinstalled it. it sounded fine other than a lifter tick(cured with some tyranny fluid).i drove the car for the first time to taco bell , and and i noticed that there was white smoke coming from under the car. i later found out that it was because of an extremely bad oil leak on the exhaust pipe, thus lots of white smoke. i took it to Mitsubishi, a mechanic looked at it and told me that it was probally a bad seal. so i changed it... still got the oil leak. so basically what i want to kbnow is it possible pressure in the crankcase could cause this , or something that i just don't know about. please help! sorry for the long thread//
 
boosted86 said:
i just recently changed my front main seal, because of a oil leakage problem i had(really bad) but there is still oil comming out and i don't know what it is, I'm not sure to change all the seals up front(4 of them i believe). now all of this shi* started happening after my oil pump hose came off for some reason and all my oil basically drained out of the car. i was only driving it for like 30 sec when my oil light came on. i proceed to pull over , but before i even had the chance to. the car shut off on me and made a really loud metal to metal thump. i toed it home and when i took off the valve cover i saw that the a 1 cam journal had looked like it grind ed by a grinder, as so did the bearing. any way i rebuilt the head and reinstalled it. it sounded fine other than a lifter tick(cured with some tyranny fluid).i drove the car for the first time to taco bell , and and i noticed that there was white smoke coming from under the car. i later found out that it was because of an extremely bad oil leak on the exhaust pipe, thus lots of white smoke. i took it to Mitsubishi, a mechanic looked at it and told me that it was probally a bad seal. so i changed it... still got the oil leak. so basically what i want to kbnow is it possible pressure in the crankcase could cause this , or something that i just don't know about. please help! sorry for the long thread//
There is one capital letter in this whole paragraph. :)
So... you poured transmission fluid in the oil to cure lifter tick?
Took it to Mitsu, and they told you it was a bad seal. What seal did you replace?
Did you ever drop the oil pan and inspect the rod bearings and all that jazz underneath?
Where is this oil leaking from? After you drove it to Taco Bell that is.
How is your pcv routed? Stock or to a catch can?
 
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