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JeanDSM

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Jun 23, 2004
Yabucoa, Puerto, Puerto Rico
First of all, my name is Jean Carlos I am 21years old, DSM fan from Puerto Rico. My main language is Spanish but I speak a little English and I will try to do my best on the grammar.

What happened today it wasn’t the first time. The exact same thing also happened to me 2 years ago. Today I was doing 60mph on the highway and the air conditioner stop working. It became pretty hot inside the car so I lower the windows. Then it started to smell funny like if oil was burning but I didn’t see any smoke anywhere. Then I started hearing like a lifter noise. So I looked at the oil press gauge and there was no press. and the water temp was all the way up high. I turned off the engine and pulled over.

When my cousin got out of the car he saw the front right wheel filled with oil, I said not again, when I opened the hood the transmission, turbo, i/c pipes, all that was all covered by oil. First I thought my head gasket was blown but the leak wasn’t coming from there. I removed the intercooler pipe and it was clean on the inside and the turbo didn’t have any shaft play or something. There was absolutely no smoke from the exhaust. The oil didn’t come from the oil filter, dip stick, cap or anything like that. It didn’t mix water and oil. The car was very hot but the radiator wasn’t all empty, my uncle brought me 4gts of oil and water and with half of a gallon of water the cooling system was filled up. I turned on the engine and the car was just fine, the idle was between 750 to 800 rpm and very smooth even the air conditioner started working. I checked for water and oil leaks and nothing. So I hit the throttle back to my uncle’s house and everything was normal I mean the car slow as usual but everything was normal. So I clean the engine at my uncle’s house and went back home. When I got there I checked and absolutely no leaks of any kind I made a compression test to my never opened, never rebuilt completely stock engine 142K miles on it and the results where:
#1 185psi
#2 180psi
#3 185PSI
#4 190PSI
Cheked 3 times. With the throttle open and the car just had like 20min turned off.
(Still hot)


The same thing happened 2 years ago and I did the same thing as I did today and everything went normal 2 years later until today. I mean is like my engine wanted to die 2 times before but still breathing and dam healthy.


NOW my question is where did all that oil came from? Why did it stop leaking? Both times happened when the car was hot.

My car is a stock engine just basic Bolton’s, next month I will be upgrading to a TO3/TO4E 57trim comp wheel, 50a/r .63 ex. Stage 3 turbo. What should I check before the upgrade?
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im assuming this happened under boost? it happened to me also and turned out to be the head not being torqued correctly so when the pressure went up it would leak out.. check your oil lines and the torque on your head bolts
 
I was going to say how about your breather filter on the side of the valve cover, But that is alot of oil. On a side note, I really like the way your car looks.
 
57TrimGST said:
I was going to say how about your breather filter on the side of the valve cover, But that is alot of oil. On a side note, I really like the way your car looks.


The breather filter was way to clean for all that leak and if it was beacuse of the headgasket, i should lose cylinder compression right? I dont think that was the problem.

Thanks about how my car looks, I was just thinking with all that oil on my rim, i was thinking how will my car look on bronce wheels.
 
1993eclipseGS said:
I actually thought they were bronze:coy: :sosad:
me too, i would suggest checking the gasket between the valve cover and the head. that rubber sometimes gets hard when its old.

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at 40 bucks you might as well replace it just to eliminate it as being a cause, although the problem doesnt happen regularly so you really wouldnt know.

is your rear end different from other 97 gst's or is it just me? it looks, lower, wider, and kinda better. also, i though you had bronze wheels.
 
thanks for all the feedback.

My car is a normal 97 GST with stock front and rear bumpers. Maybe its the rear wing that beacuse of the angle of the picture makes the rear of the car diferent. I go more pictures on my gallery with the previusly Blitz front bumper.

My wheels are Arospeed RSGT 19inch characoal gray, i was thinking on painting them black, but now bronce is another posibility.
 
How much boost are you running? I had blown a head gasket once between cylinders and had the same problem. Not as much oil though. And assuming that your calling the #4 cylinder on the left there could be oil in the cylinder and that is why you get the highest compression there. And if it is high boost on stock head bolts the head can lift off and cause the oil and water passages to be exposed.
 
I am running my T25 at 1 bar = 14.7 psi peak and .75 bar to redline about 11psi. At that time i was just crusing, no boost on sight for a long run. I removed the sparkplugs and there was no oil burned on any of them. The head cover gasked in in good conditions but i am going to change it anyways.

If in a near future i mean on the next month i instal a cometic head gasket and arp studs do i need to resurface the block and head?

correct me if im wrong but if the head lift off, that means that theres must hve been mixed water and oil on the cooling lines dip stick and all that right?
 
Yeah water and oil should have mixed but it is a dsm and weird crap happens all the time. I have personally never used the cometic I have the mitsu 4 layer and havn't had a problem yet. You shouldn't have to resurface those but just make sure they are clean. And also when installing the ARP's they have a different torque spec than the stockers. I belive they are 80 ftlbs but can't remember for sure, there will be instructions w/ them.
 
sounds like a buildup of pressure in the crankcase like your breather filter didn't exist..

sound like a bad PCV valve. when i had a bad pcv valve on my 1.8 it randomly blew oil into the intake track. if your pcv valve is really bad, then it wouldn't even do that, so it wouldn't blow into your breather. see if it's bad...
 
That's crazy that people have this problem but my best guess would be the head gasket not being torqued to specs as mentioned before, but WOW that's a lot of oil. Goodluck with solving the problem.
 
it cant be the head gasket becasue he said no oil and water mix, when eever a headgasket goes then there is definately water in the oil or vise versa.

sounds like freebirth might have something close to the solution...

also isnt there an oil line going to the turbo?...bad gaskets in the turbo letting oil into the wheel? probly wrong but just a guess
 
FusionTalon said:
it cant be the head gasket becasue he said no oil and water mix, when eever a headgasket goes then there is definately water in the oil or vise versa.

sounds like freebirth might have something close to the solution...

also isnt there an oil line going to the turbo?...bad gaskets in the turbo letting oil into the wheel? probly wrong but just a guess

My headgasket went and I had perfect compression across the board, and the oil/water did not mix what-so-ever. Only sign of it being blown was hydrocarbons in my coolant.

If the turbo seals went out and was pushing oil through the intake pipes, it would be burning oil out of the exhaust and be shooting tons of oil out of the BOV. Nice thought, but it doesn't look like its coming from the BOV area.
 
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