#43364, "REALLY woke my ass up at 5 AM!!!!!!!!!(long)"
I was gonna change my oil and plugs the next day, but had one of those sleepless nights yesterday. While endlessly flipping through tons of infomercials trying a feeble attempt to go to sleep, an idea just suddenly popped in my head to go ahead and change your plugs now at 5 in the morning.
So I did, unplug the wires, started with the #4 cylinder plug, and BAM.........................oil!!!!!!!!!! My heart stop, did #3 plug and BAM............oil again. Did 1 and 2 and it was bone dry. Upon closer inspection though, the wet plug's electrodes where bone dry (all plugs had a grayish\brownish tan color). The fact that the electrodes where dry got my heart pumping again. It's the threaded portion that was covered with oil. If you can imagine, take out the electrodes and basically dip the threaded portion in oil really quick, that's how it looked like.
The next day, me and Kyle (Fast420A) opened the valve cover and it turned out that the o-ring for 3 and 4 wasn't seated properly. We inspected the valve cover gasket and all 4 o-rings, and they were good as new. We just cleaned it up, covered the gasket linings with some orange sealant, and covered it back up.
Hopefully that did the trick!!!!!!
Kris "Someday............I'll have traction problems!!!!" Tampa, FL Pinoy Turbo 2GNT
1999 HRC Turbo RS Stage 2 Auto with BOOST!!!!!!!!!!!!
#43369, "RE: REALLY woke my ass up at 5 AM!!!!!!!!!(long)" In response to Reply # 0
Yeah, those little spark plug well gaskets tend to leak on our cars. When I removed my valve cover to have it powder coated after having the car for only a year and a half, a couple of them were starting to leak already.
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