LingLing
04-04-2006, 12:36 PM
Victim: 1990 Plymouth Laser RS-T (FWD)
Mods: None, Bone stock
Okay, So I'm changing my oil this morning and lone behold, there's fairly thick steaks of coolant in it. My first thought is a bad head gasket. However, it's a brand new head gasket from Mitsu, along with the head bolts. everything was done to torque spec and installed properly.
Thing's I noticed...
1) There's something leaking, there's a wet spot of the front side of the cat (toward the front of the car), and my underbody looks wet too. This car hasn't been drivin for 3-4 days due to low oil pressure. The moisture continues up to the engine bay, but I can't define where it's coming from.
2)Took the valve cover off and checked the head bolts. Yep, they're to torque spec, none of them backed themselves out. The stagnent oil around the cams appear to have NO signs of coolant in them, and the oil still looks golden. Where as the oil in the draining pan looks pretty murky and pretty black, with streaks of coolant.
3) There wasn't a lot of oil in my oil pan. Next to nothing. So I am linking the wet underbody to an oil leak, and will cause my extremely low oil pressure. But from where? (Good thing I stopped driving it right when I noticed the low oil pressure)
4) Since it has been rebuilt, it has never shown signs of overheating, and actually runs too cool compared to other turbo dsm's (hence my Runs Too Cold thread).
What do you guys think? Thanks in advance for your input.
-Jason
Mods: None, Bone stock
Okay, So I'm changing my oil this morning and lone behold, there's fairly thick steaks of coolant in it. My first thought is a bad head gasket. However, it's a brand new head gasket from Mitsu, along with the head bolts. everything was done to torque spec and installed properly.
Thing's I noticed...
1) There's something leaking, there's a wet spot of the front side of the cat (toward the front of the car), and my underbody looks wet too. This car hasn't been drivin for 3-4 days due to low oil pressure. The moisture continues up to the engine bay, but I can't define where it's coming from.
2)Took the valve cover off and checked the head bolts. Yep, they're to torque spec, none of them backed themselves out. The stagnent oil around the cams appear to have NO signs of coolant in them, and the oil still looks golden. Where as the oil in the draining pan looks pretty murky and pretty black, with streaks of coolant.
3) There wasn't a lot of oil in my oil pan. Next to nothing. So I am linking the wet underbody to an oil leak, and will cause my extremely low oil pressure. But from where? (Good thing I stopped driving it right when I noticed the low oil pressure)
4) Since it has been rebuilt, it has never shown signs of overheating, and actually runs too cool compared to other turbo dsm's (hence my Runs Too Cold thread).
What do you guys think? Thanks in advance for your input.
-Jason