Sean @ ESG

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I had bad spark plug O-rings, I mean really bad, and when I took off my valve cover there was a large amount of oil in each hole where the spark plugs go.

I have new spark plugs, but do I need new wires also? And how do I get the oil out of there? will it eventually leak down?

I searched but all I found was people with 1 bad gasket or something, and no answer as to how to get the oil out

Thanks guys

94hatchvx

if theres oil in the spark plug hole its a blown head gasket. take out your plugs and use a rag

Sean @ ESG

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seriously it's the head gasket? I heard people saying that it could just be the o-rings?

CardDealer

Modified by CardDealer at 2:19 PM 11/16/2006

underb00steg6

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by schlit &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">No, it's the valve cover O ring. 94hatchvx is wrong. I'd use a turkey baster or a hand vaccum pump attached to a thin hose to suck it out. Who knows what crap is in the bottom of those plug holes and will be washed into the cylinder if you take out the spark plug.</TD></TR></TABLE>

it could be the piston rings also ...bad rings will leak causing the pushing up of oil.

underb00steg6

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have you done a leak down test?

underb00steg6

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or a compression test would help too

FalkenSiR

Generally it's just o rings. Maybe this is a really bad case

sol2hatch

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by fast95eg8 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Generally it's just o rings. Maybe this is a really bad case </TD></TR></TABLE>

agree I had this prob on my old engine. I believe it is just the o rings. If it is alot of oil, then I would think it is just the O rings gone bad. It would smoke otherwise.

edit: you shouldnt need new wires either. Not because of the oil at least, unless they are just really old or something

CardDealer

Modified by CardDealer at 2:19 PM 11/16/2006

Farmer Brown

Just stuff some paper towels down in there. A little oil in the engine wont hurt anything though. But I do mean a little. Make sure you absorb as much as you can before you take out the old plugs.

JDM-EJ1

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 94hatchvx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if theres oil in the spark plug hole its a blown head gasket. take out your plugs and use a rag</TD></TR></TABLE>

No. It's the valve cover O-rings that have gone bad, not the headgasket.

EG2Driver

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Djaric &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Just stuff some paper towels down in there. A little oil in the engine wont hurt anything though. But I do mean a little. Make sure you absorb as much as you can before you take out the old plugs. </TD></TR></TABLE>

i second that......i did that when i had water down there.

jerm001

out of curiousity, where would one go to get a compression test, and how much would it cost?

EG93si

i had that yesterday, the pressure from the leak was causing my wire to pop off and it had oil up to the tip of the plug, i just used a mc donalds straw with the old suck and blow technique and then i used this stuff called "the stuff" and ran a small bead around the rings with the valve cover off, runs like a champ now

JDM-EJ1

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jerm001 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">out of curiousity, where would one go to get a compression test, and how much would it cost?</TD></TR></TABLE>

You can goto any autoshop to do it. Or, you can be a compression tester and do it yourself.

Sean @ ESG

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awesome guys, thanks for the help once again. Pretty much re-assured what I thought.

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