I just bought a 89 civic 4 door as my winter beater and i was checking the spark plugs and when i pulled one out it was drenched in oil. What exactly does that mean? and i checked the oil, there is none in the car.

thanks.

 

Bad spark plug tube seal.

 

either that or bad valve seals..no biggie
worse case scenario is an xtreamly bad blows piston ring

 

so i should just leave it and change the plugs?

 

Well if you don't fix the leak, I would add new oil and filter and keep tabs on the oil level daily.

 

Is it expensive to fix the leak? I mean this is just for the winter, so I want to spend the least amount of money on this car..

 

valve cover gasket and plug tube grommets and all that stuff is really cheap. Definitely worth doing! I did it and even sd after finished it was one of the best things ive ever done for the car.

 

it could also be leaking from the rocker arm assembly. theres a seal that goes right at the bottom of the spark plug tube .

 

I have a b16a and i have the same problem in my 1st and 4th cylinder. Is it hard to change the seals at the bottom of the spark plug tube? do i need any special tools?

thanks

 

Nope just take the valve cover off and the grommets go on the bottom of the tubes, take them off and replace them. Its easy....trust me you can do it. I highly doubt that its the rocker arm assembly.

 

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Are you talking about the top seals, number 4 or are you talking about something different



because #4 looks fine. Also the engine hasnt ran in probably 2 years

 

yes its #4 and to the naked eye you aint gonna be able to tell if its warped.... i've done several of these services to heads and that was always the problem its cheap and easy and if you continue to let the oil drip in there it will eventialy damage the plug wires

 

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alright thanks for clearing that up. Ill change them.

Thanks

 

Yeah you can get a complete gasket set with the O rings and VC gasket for like $15 from Autozone. That should take care of your problem

 

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I already have a new VC gasket all i need is the seals now and how will i get the oil out?

 

rags.... and long screw driver..... if a little drops down the cylinder oh well big woop it'll just burn off

 

Same problem with mine...
Replacing the valve cover gasket and top tube seals did not help. Must be the other seals that are under the rocker arms.
Has anyone replace these before? Do I have to remove the camshaft and rocker arm assembly? Or can I just loosen without removing them?
Thanks

 

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thats what i thought thanks

 

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That is away of getting it out for acouple minutes.

I had this same problem with a mazda 626 my gf drives. And YES it is the headgasket and grommets. I did this for 25 bucks and it has yet to leak again (over a year ago).

 

start with tube seals and go from there

 

Its NOT the vc and tube seal gaskets FOR SURE! Read my previous post. Thats where you should start, but does not mean that it will fix it. If it doesn't, then its the tower seals.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 65stang90crx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Nope just take the valve cover off and the grommets go on the bottom of the tubes, take them off and replace them. Its easy....trust me you can do it. I highly doubt that its the rocker arm assembly.</TD></TR></TABLE>
why cant it be the rocker arm assembly????? my last d15b2 was leaking there alot!. you can normally tell if the tube is leaking from the top. theres usually oil leaking down.

 

problem fixed, it was the seals. The oil was only on the top of the plugs and i found oil in the grooves where the seals sit in the 1st and 4th. So I put new seals in and cleaned my spark plugs. Im too cheep right now to buy $80 in spark plugs.