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Mar 21, 2018 | 04:10 PM

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i think he was referring to the valve guides and yeah i will

Oh! You should do a compression test to see how healthy your piston rings are.

Mar 21, 2018 | 04:12 PM

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ok ill do that as soon as i can

Mar 25, 2018 | 09:22 AM

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im not sure what this is but i think coolant is coming out of it

Mar 25, 2018 | 12:08 PM

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That looks like a dump tube for your turbo. It's probably only water vapor from your exhaust when cold.

Mar 25, 2018 | 12:28 PM

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If your issue turns out to be popping the dipstick check the o-ring like Sean said. If that doesn't help, then you have a bigger problem. You can band-aid it all you want, but you have a problem with your piston rings and it really needs to be fixed. Not happy news, for sure.. but it happens.
Hopefully it's something (simple) else, though. Good luck, man.

Mar 25, 2018 | 03:19 PM

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You've bought a lemon.

Pull the sparkplugs, post photos of them up on here.

Mar 25, 2018 | 03:43 PM

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You've bought a lemon.

Pull the sparkplugs, post photos of them up on here.

It will be impossible to find a perfect used evo. All we can do is budget for repairs.

Mar 25, 2018 | 07:23 PM

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You need to provide better info for us to help. The only pic you posted was of oil on the ground near the dump tube. This could be a bad turbo oil seal. Does the car blow a blue'ish color out of the exhaust when you driving or at idle after a WOT pull? If it were bad valve guide it would be a lot of smoke all the time. Also possible misfires. My guess is the turbo needs to be rebuilt.

Mar 25, 2018 | 08:07 PM

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the oil wasnt coming from the dumptube it was coming from under the diostick im pretty sure coolant is leaking off the radiator and onto the dumptube because it doesnt really look or feel like oil i dont think my car is a lemon i think it just may need some tweaks the whole head was rebuilt not long ago with piston replacement so the pistons and rings should be ok

Mar 25, 2018 | 08:08 PM

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also the car runs and drives beatufully as it should pulls hard as it should and no not much smoke at all coming from the exhaust

Mar 25, 2018 | 08:37 PM

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Wipe down everything. Then look for leaks around oil and coolant lines to turbo. If you're leaking around dipstick, definitely check out o-ring. If good, start going up to valve cover gasket. Again, make sure you clean everything off first before looking for leaks.

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Mar 26, 2018 | 06:15 AM

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ok i will do that this weekend

Mar 26, 2018 | 11:11 AM

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It can be hard to seat the dipstick tube into the block. The first time I did it ,the o-ring pinched. It WILL leak. Another place you may wanna check.