2006-06-13 02:24:43 · 8 answers · asked by gmaynard1982 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Good Morning! Saw this one and had to try my hand. When you say your plugs drip with oil? is the oil form the OUTSIDE? or do the plugs drip with oil after you remove them from the cylinder head as from the INSIDE of the engine? The difference is where you are going to start looking for the leak. If it is on the outside of the plugs? Check the valve cover bolts first...if they are tight? you may have to consider new valve cover gaskets. If the oil is coming from the inside of the engine? The best way to find a leak internally is with compressed air! Roll each cylinder around to its top dead center.....remove the spark plug and install an adapter to allow you to "pressurize" each cylinder at a time. Depending where you hear air escaping? as in intake? exhaust? bubbles in your cooling system? will tell you what part has worn or failed to allow oil to get by. I hope this has helped in some small way. Hyway!
2006-06-13 03:18:36 · answer #1 · answered by Hyway 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you remove the spark plug, if the oil is on the outside of the plug (not on the part that goes into the engine) then you have a cover gasket or on some engines an "o"ring leaking allowing the oil to run down onto the plug. If the oil is on the part of the plug that goes inside the engine, and for you to see liquid oil on the plug tip, you have oil in that cylinder from valve seals,head gasket, or a cracked head any of these means major engine work.
2006-06-13 10:46:28 · answer #2 · answered by jdrom_1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your plugs have oil on the outside change your valve cover gasket
2006-06-13 10:45:02 · answer #3 · answered by Vulcan 1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have oil on your spark plugs than you need a new valve cover gasket, and spark plug o-rings or spark plug gaskets installed.
2006-06-13 09:36:04 · answer #4 · answered by JOSHZILLA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either the valve guide seals or possibly the piston rings are shot. Do a compression test and find out which cyls. are low. Pull the valve covers and inspect the valve guides for wear.
2006-06-13 09:33:10 · answer #5 · answered by cabbie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All sort of possibilities.
Depends on the car and engine.
More than likely the valve covers are leaking, but it depends on the car's make and the engine
2006-06-13 09:32:32 · answer #6 · answered by vetteman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Valve seals is most likely.
Oil can also get into the combustion chamber from a
2. bad head gasket.
3. cracked head
4. worn rings
2006-06-13 09:30:47 · answer #7 · answered by hsueh001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the seals inside your valve cover gasket get a valve cover gasket kit
2006-06-13 09:49:18 · answer #8 · answered by swoop2008 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋