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Oil under spark plugs
Posted: February 29th, 2004, 1:01 am
by advantiracing
do you know what im talking about?.. just sitting on the cylender heads, right underneathe the spark lugs?. Why, ? is it bad?
just doin a little sprang claannin'
Re: Oil under spark plugs
Posted: February 29th, 2004, 4:13 am
by quicksliver
I had the same problem, it's very common on higher mileage engines. Cost me about $225cdn after taxes to have the 'Valve Cover Gaskets' replaced at my local mazda dealership.
Re: Oil under spark plugs
Posted: February 29th, 2004, 5:59 pm
by endocyc
Yes this is the problem, only I fixed it for around $30 in my back yard.
Re: Oil under spark plugs
Posted: February 29th, 2004, 7:26 pm
by advantiracing
is it hard to do, just take off each valve cover and plop in a new gasket?
Re: Oil under spark plugs
Posted: February 29th, 2004, 8:25 pm
by MX3-Freak
Well, depends what leaking, it could be that simple or it could be an idividual valve is leaking. That happened to me in a civic. One damn cylinder ruined the entire car(to fix it would be more effort then to buy a new piece of ****).
Re: Oil under spark plugs
Posted: February 29th, 2004, 8:51 pm
by lakersfan1
Originally posted by advantiracing:
is it hard to do, just take off each valve cover and plop in a new gasket?
The front one is easy, but the rear one is under the intake manifold.....so the hard part is uninstalling and reinstalling your intake manifold.
Re: Oil under spark plugs
Posted: February 29th, 2004, 11:26 pm
by mitmaks
do you have to take out spark plugs on K8 to remove valve covers?
Re: Oil under spark plugs
Posted: March 20th, 2004, 9:29 pm
by HazardousMX3
Originally posted by mitmaks:
do you have to take out spark plugs on K8 to remove valve covers?
bump, I would like to know this also
Re: Oil under spark plugs
Posted: March 20th, 2004, 10:45 pm
by SimonPK
no