I'm getting an exhaust leak that is coming through the spark plug hole in the vavle cover. What will cause that?

 

um... a loose plug... wtf, is your car misfiring?

 

exhaust leak were you spark plugs are? i doubt it.Is there oil around the top of you spark plugs? if so then your valve cover cover has a leak in one of the gaskets.

 

I'm thinking it is a gasket leeak also. Yeah the spark plugs are tight. I'm planning on replacing all the gaskets from the head up, just making sure I'm thinking in the right direction.

 

but is there oil on top of any of the plugs?

 

Not that I seen. It is really cold here so couldn't do much work on it today. Just picked the car up yesterday. Pulled the plug yesterday and didn't see any oil, but that was bfore the 3 hour drive in it.

 

is it misfiring?

 

I think it is either misfiring or need a new cap and rotor. I put a timing light on each plug wire today to see if everone is firing, cause I felt like it was only running on 3 cylenders (could be do to the fact that gas is leaking from a bad o-ring in an injector) and I was getting a really weak spark on 3 cylinders

 

Afterpulling the valve cover, I'm thinking it is ahte head gasket. Oil looks a little milky.

 

if "exauhst" is coming out of the valve cover, while running the engine pull the dip stick and /or oil cap and if its coming out of either/both you've got a serios blow by issue and there is something terribly wrong...may be more than just the head gasket, the last engine i saw doing that had shattered rings and lands, it was a stock single cam vtec

 

Its coming out of the valve cover. Not sure about the dipstick. Will go check right now.

 

yeah. It's coming out of the dipstick hole too. guess it is time for a complete rebuild.