Coolant and oil on valve cover

[clean96GST]

Ok so when I popped the hood the other day it looked like oil sprayed on my valve cover and the blcack thing on the side of it.... my dipstick is messed up( look at the picture) could it of sprayed up out of that? And the pictures are from my cel sorry about the bad quality.

Also there was coolant all over the engine bay and my coolant reserve or overflow or whatever its called was almost empty. One of the hoses looks sketchy but I don't know if thats where its coming from

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[TSiAWD666]

Yes oil can shoot from the dipstick. If your dipstick was in the position it is in that picture however then it is unlikely that is the source of your oil. Reason being is if there's enough blowby to pressurize your crankcase and squirt oil out the dipstick tube then there would probably be enough there to shoot that dipstick out. I can't tell though if you have a mechanism for holding the dipstick tube in place.

The coolant line you show in the 2nd to last and final pictures is your upper radiator line and if it has sprung a leak then yes it can squirt coolant.

If you've run out of coolant in your reservoir you've either got a leak (host, gaskets, connections, etc.), head gasket leak (to where you're burning coolant off), or overheating to where you're shooting it out the line from the overflow tank. Since you said you found it on the valve cover area then it sounds your most likely culprit is a leak exterior to the engine block. Generally pretty easy to find since coolant is quite visible.

The "black thing" is your upper timing belt cover.

 

[clean96GST]

Thanks for the asnwer, I cleaned the oil off and took out the dipstick and plugged the hole and so far no more oil..... Does anyone know where I can get a new dipstick? As for the coolant I think it is me overheating but I think it will be fine beause its almost winter again.

 

[Daaan]

Thanks for the asnwer, I cleaned the oil off and took out the dipstick and plugged the hole and so far no more oil..... Does anyone know where I can get a new dipstick? As for the coolant I think it is me overheating but I think it will be fine beause its almost winter again.

Someone hacked that radiator hose in pic #3. You should get a new and make sure it extends to the end of the radiator. You can see the imprint of where the hose used to extend to. When you do get a new hose double clamp it. One screw facing up to the left, and one facing you to the right. I had my rad hose leak from the clamp after replacing the stock one. So i doubled it up and never leaked again. Good luck

 

[Bigglesworth87]

dipstick- EXTREME PSI : Your #1 Source for In Stock Performance Parts - OEM Oil Dipstick OEM : Mitsubishi Eclipse 95-99

upper rad hose- EXTREME PSI : Your #1 Source for In Stock Performance Parts - OEM Radiator Hose Upper : Mitsubishi Eclipse 95-99

lower rad hose while your at it- EXTREME PSI : Your #1 Source for In Stock Performance Parts - OEM Radiator Hose Lower : Mitsubishi Eclipse 95-99

Another thing that you could replace to make sure you arent leaking from would be the oil cap. - EXTREME PSI : Your #1 Source for In Stock Performance Parts - OEM Oil Filler Cap : Mitsubishi Eclipse 90-99

DOUBLE CHECK YOUR COOLANT AND OIL LEVELS

 

[clean96GST]

upper rad hose- EXTREME PSI : Your #1 Source for In Stock Performance Parts - OEM Radiator Hose Upper : Mitsubishi Eclipse 95-99

So i bought this and it is the one in the picture but it isn't anything like the OEM one and doesn't fit?

 

[Daaan]

So i bought this and it is the one in the picture but it isn't anything like the OEM one and doesn't fit?

I dont know about the 2g's, but my 1g has an upper and lower radiator hose which are quite different.

 

[clean96GST]

I dont know about the 2g's, but my 1g has an upper and lower radiator hose which are quite different.

Yeah mine are different too, but i bought the upper one for a 2g and it doesn't fit.

 

[No_Skillz]

Please be more clear in your description or clamp one side of the hose on and take a picture so we can see.

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

 

[clean96GST]

Please be more clear in your description or clamp one side of the hose on and take a picture so we can see.

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

Sorry, and I don't really get what you mean by clamping the hose and taking a picture? Anyways the oil spray was just from the dip stick which the new one just came in the mail today and the coolant is from my car overheating and going into the overflow tank, well hopefully thats what all of it is from.

 

[No_Skillz]

You said the pipe didn't fit. Get it as close as you can and take a picture so we have an idea of HOW it doesn't fit.

 

[Kyromoto]

Yeah he means attatch one side of the hose (clamp) and put the other end close to the other place it connects then take a pic.

 

[clean96GST]

Holy crap I think I have a 1G radiator. I've been looking through engine bay pics and on all 2g's it looks like the place the hose connects is in the middle of the radiator, and on 1g's its offset to the left of the radiator (if looking at from front) and thats how mine is. Am I right?

 

[No_Skillz]

Take a better picture of your radiator and your thermostat housing.

1G radiators have metal end tanks. The end tanks in your pictures are plastic, and from what I can see it looks like a normal 2g radiator.

A better picture would be telling.