I was changing out my two year old spark plugs, when I noticed engine oil saturating the plug. What up with this?

 

your oil rings are proly starting to go bad alowing excess oil to make its way up into the cylinders, or your valve seals are bad thats a little easier to notice as when you first start up your car it smokes like a chimmney. Both commom with older integras

 

Its not smoking like a chimmney. So its o rings? Is that easy to replace? How much are they at the dealer?

 

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o rings are very easy to change. just remove the spark plugs wire, and a few nuts to remove to take out valve cover and u will see o rings. and it will be #7 shown in the pic and it cost around $2.25 each at most. but since remove valve cover, chances are, u might need to replace valve cover gasket too which is around $10

 

hey thanks for the illustration. Do I still need to change my gasket if its a year old? And if if do need to change it, what sealant stuff to use at each corner? I forgot what i put down last year.

Ohh and what web site is that illustration? thanks

 

this is what i use to seal the corners and around the cam gear area.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 91tegra07 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hey thanks for the illustration. (1)Do I still need to change my gasket if its a year old? And if if do need to change it, what sealant stuff to use at each corner? I forgot what i put down last year.

(2)Ohh and what web site is that illustration? thanks</TD></TR></TABLE>


(1)Personally I change the VC gasket every time I take off the VC

(2) http://www.hondapartsunlimited.com

 

use hondabond! that **** works wonders on ANYTHING

 

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Still leaking guys but not as bad. I changed out with new o rings. Made sure the valve cover was clean of old oil. What else to check?

 

could be oil seeping up from the crank case via bad piston rings...try a compression check.. but if its not your valve seals or your gaskets/grommets... could get expensive

 

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weird

 

Did you check for any cracks? Sometimes they hide well

 

bump im interested as well might have same problem