Hi guys I have a problem with a oil leak, mechanic took a look at it and said it was some sort of breather tube is missing and he can make one for me. thats a lil iffy cus Im bout to take a long roadtrip with the car. Im not sure what the tube is called to buy a factory or aftermarket one please help. heres a picture i found that i believe that is the piece thats missing. Im not a mechanic and still pretty new at this but i think its the black tube right under the dipstick tube going to the right in this picture here



Im not sure what it is but i do see a place for some kind of tube or cap its under the headers when I looked at it with the mechanic

That tube is for the coolant and is connected to the water pump. If theres oil leaking out of there, you have a problem...

Where is the oil actually leaking from, front or back?

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99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

its leaking from the front somewhere under where the headers are. I will try n go back to the shop n take a picture. but the mechanic is sayin some some kind of "breather" tube or whatever

tell your mechanic to FUCK OFF and chum money from someone else. if its leaking from somewhere under your headers, the breather is NOWHERE near there. there's not even a breather on our cars in stock form!

Source the oil leak. put oil dye in your motor, run it for a bit, the put a blacklight on it in a dim or dark area. you'll see the oil glow and you'll be able to trace it much easier. report back with your findings. GOD i hate your mechanic already

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damm sorry about that forgot to say the engine was fully rebuilt engine for a turbo. about 4-5 years ago I think there was a problem with the shortblock or bottom piece of that engine so they used one from a neon. I searched around some more cuz i remembered about the neon part. Looks like the neons had a breather box or something and those were the holes.
It was covered by the mechanic years ago and now it looks like it popped off or something. I took some pictures of it just tryin to figure out how to upload them here



Shot at 2010-07-08

those are the two holes that were blocked off where there used to be a breather box from the neon.


Shot at 2010-07-08

and this is the hole thats gushin out oil.

I was wondering if its ok to block it off again or should I let him make his "breather" cap thingy or I should order a breather box for a neon.

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blah. figured it was a regular 420a. who knew.

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Outside of Corona: "That sucks, peace out..." (jamie walks away)... "Sweeet, what we doin?" -Zac
Tim's garage (prior to motor install): "Im gonna smoke real quick, that way if you fuck up I am already nicotined up" -Tim

So how should I or the mechanic block it off, cus it looks like it was blocked off before and blew off it looked like. and btw thx for the replies u two

Unless you have excessive crankcase pressure, which would lead me to believe you may have a bigger problem on your hand, a high temp vacuum cap and a hose clamp should do the trick for a while. Looks like that is all that was done to the breather on the right and it is still intact.

1999 Eclipse GS
Built motor
Hahn 16G Turbo w/ FMIC
Hahn Stage 5 Portfueler (270's & 500's)
Zeitronix Zt-2 wideband w/ 3.5bar MAP
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CM Stage 4 Clutch and Fidanza Flywheel
Baer Big Brake Kit

I sure hope its not excessive crank case pressure. Well the story with the car is that it was impounded for about 4-5 years I jus recently got it back, so I hope maybe that missing cap might have been eaten by rats or mice or deteriorated for some weird reason. Cus a couple of the spark plug wires looked like they were gnawed at. Im tryin to get this car back up and running cus i would still like to slap a turbo in.


and Ebster where would I buy these vacuum caps. guess i would have to tell the mechanic not to make his breather thingy and just cap it off.

Thanks for all the help so far

That's a '95 SOHC Neon block... Neat. Don't see too many of those.

You can just cap the breather hole off. No big deal.

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yea. save your money, DIY

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Outside of Corona: "That sucks, peace out..." (jamie walks away)... "Sweeet, what we doin?" -Zac
Tim's garage (prior to motor install): "Im gonna smoke real quick, that way if you fuck up I am already nicotined up" -Tim

k so I couldnt reach the mechanic in time to tell him not to make the breather tube thingy, so he made it. It still in the shop for a full tuneup atm so I couldnt test drive it. Is it mandatory that that hole is blocked off? does it affect performance of my engine now that air can go into that one hole now?

To give you an honest answer we need to see what he did

Captain Caveman

96 RS Turbo 11.414 @ 119.62 MSNS, Crower 2 NA cams, BW366, 10.5 comp, UDP, 60mm TB, W/A intercooler, 3.55 tranny 567.9whp 430tq
97 RS NA 13.188 @ 103.87 MSnS powered 12.5 comp, Crower 3's and 219.4whp with 175tq
98 RS DD 12.5 comp on stock ECU, LTH, Crower 2's, Koni, GC, Hypercoil, DG hats
99 OZ 5sp Stocker 15.856 @ 85.97
99 GS stocker auto 17.7@77mph!

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