Oil In Sparkplug Well

[Ari25t]

As the title suggests on my 33 I have a nice big pool of oil in my sparkplug wells.

Unfortunately I haven't had enough time to inspect the problem closely- Spose it'll be a Saturday morning job now....

Seeing as I've only just bought the car I'm hoping that maybe the previous owner has fixed a bad leak from the rockercover gasket and not thought to clean up the leakage properly.

I plan to suck all the oil up, clean the plugs, coilpacks and head and take it for a drive to see how quickly the oil comes back.

I've heard there are sparkplug seals down in there somewhere but I can't for the life of me picture what they would look like, where they are and how hard/expensive they are to replace...

Anyone had this problem that could tell me what I might be in for?

[Julz89]

im pretty sure by memory when you take the rocker cover off there will be O shaped seals down the center of the rocker cover once it is removed, it wuldnt be to expencive and the seals shuld come with a new rocka cover gasket.

[Ari25t]

Hopefully thats all it is then and I should be able to see pretty easily if thats the problem.

I was told by an NRMA roadside assistance dude that there are sparkplug seals or atleast seals near the sparkplugs that would be leaking (He took a 5 second look at it when my car broke down yesterday -which is another story) can anyone elaborate on this?

[Julz89]

yer those would be the seals he was talkin about the ones i explained above, if it is not that then its a different ball game as at work we have had oil soaked the spark plugs and it wasnt the seals some have been a head gasket and in worst cases piston rings but lets hope its just the seals aye lol.

[Ari25t]

Got some time this afternoon to pull the coil packs out and it looks like it could have just slowly seeped from the rocker cover gasket. Pheww. Easy fix.

Thanks for your input Julz!

[Julz89]

no worries man anytime good luck with it all.