So as the title says I got a 97 accord we and the spark plug Wells fill with oil! It started a couple months back when the original ones where toast so I got the valve cover gasket set and replaced them. Everything was all good no oil, till about 3 weeks later I'm driving and notice a misfire. So I check i pull over and check out the engine and sure enough oils back in the wells and it's not just 1 or 2!! All 4 spark plug Wells have pools of oil????? Any help would be appreciated!!!!! Also it had to of happened fast and not slowly filled because i was keeping an eye and checking the engine everyday or every other atleast and they were dry a day before this happened.

 

I wouldn't use an aftermarket seal kit. You replaced the valve cover gasket as well as all 4 or 6 of the rubber spark plug well seals right? If you reused the metal washers with the new spark plug seals they might have not been cleaned well or you dented them. I never trust aftermarket seals, pay the higher price for honda. Dont buy each seal separately, on my 01 accord honda actually sells the whole seal kit for less $$

 

You can try the seals again but it may be the actual bottom of the hollow tubes that surround the spark plugs are leaking at the bottom of the tube. These tubes are actually screwed in, in some cars. Ericthecarguy and Briansmobile1 both have YouTube videos "My Honda has oil on the spark plugs and wires How to fix it" by Briansmobile1, and "Spark Plug Well Oil Leak Fix, Honda Accord - EricTheCarGuy". If you want specific information on your exact model/year, you can subscribe to alldatadiy.com for about $30 for a year and get the exact information on your car.

 

Yea I bought the fel pro valve cover gasket set with the the 4 seals that go into the valve cover and the 4 O-rings that go into the bottom of the tube in the rocker arm assembly and of course the valve cover gasket... I replaced all of those and the plugs that went in had been new along with wires because of when it filled the 1st time it ruined the old wires.... It's got me dumb founded it's done by the book also to tourqe!!

 

not really sure how this could happen if you did everything right, but I would say maybe just do it again be sure to tighten down the valve cover in criss cross pattern, starting from the inside nuts out

 

Ya exactly I was wondering if Thier is a chance or way the head surface or even tubes on the rocker assembly could have got warpped/twerked somehow or a high oil pressure?? But it'd have to be pretty high wouldn't it? I'm just about to try and put some rtv if I gotta do this over and get an OEM set from Honda cuz obviously my cars not liking fel pro to much haha.... It's been giving me a damn headache

 

yeah dude seriously I've read about leaks using aftermarkets including fel pro, either you need OEM ones or you installed them wrong, like really wrong and theres a huge gap somewhere. unless you're broke please don't use RTV, extremely messy to get off. even aftermarket ones even if they leak I would think it would be a slow leak and not a fast leak.

 

Yea that's how I've usually felt about the rtv untill this accord showed up in my life haha I've never had an issue like this 1 plus it's at 260000. But yea Thiers obviously something wrong I'm doing but can't figure it out because I've done it just as the book says and even that vid from Eric the car guy it's insane how bad it's bugging me

 

There's two sets of seals for the spark plug tubes for the F22 engines. The valve cover gasket set only includes the upper seals. Sounds like you need to do the lower seals as well. They are a true O-ring unlike the upper seals, which are more of a disk. You'll need to pull the rocker assembly off to get to them.
FelPro are decent quality; I've never had issue with them. Of course you can never go wrong with OEM.

 

yeah I think he's right, those old hondas had top and bottom seals. I'm trying to look up the diagram for your car but my internet is super slow. suggest you try looking up the diagram for that on majestic or hondapartsnow.com yeah it's gotta be those lower hard to get to seals.

 

I believe that the non-VTEC motors had lower seals and the VTEC motors did not. Since his is an SE it should have the non-VTEC with the lower seals.

 

3 of us told him the same thing, hope he comes back to read these

 

the OP stated he already replaced the lower seals, for some reason it still leaked

 

THANK YOU!!!! "HOLMESMANNY" and I've got plenty of diagrams and the manual on the car plus Im pretty good at using Google to find what I don't have or know lol and I tore it all back open and then put back together again using a thin bead/film of high temp RTV felt like it was my last option because I'm telling you all I did it all straight by the book to torque specs and didn't use rtv to start because everyone frowned on it so I tried to do it right but didn't work out guess I'm back to not following the rules/laws HAHAHA JK
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So we'll see what happens I guess!!