I am not a Honda guy but do minor work on my wife's 1996 Honda Accord with a 2.2l 4 cylinder. A couple of years ago, I replaced the plugs and found that there was oil in one of the plug areas. I read on here about the valve cover gasket and replaced that. Head looked OK with no cracks. I just replaced plugs again last night and now there is oil in both center plug areas (2&3). Plugs don't look bad either. Once started, it smoked as I thought it would and then ran perfectly as it always does. Could a clogged catalytic converter cause this or am I in more deep poop on this one? I have not checked head presure or anything other than just observations.

Thanks for any help that you guys can send my way.

Frank

 

when you replaced the valve cover gasket, did you replace the gaskets that seal the spark plug tubes? That is the most likely place for 'oil in the wells' problem.

 

Unfortunately not but am going to do all 4 of them tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks for the info.

Frank

 

On my Accord it was the o-rings under the rockerarm assembly that were leaking into the spark plug tubes. I don't know for sure if you have the same engine I had in my 92EX, but here's a link on how to fix the problem. Not really hard to do. No special tools required.

http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/sh...seals