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Ari25t

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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? :P

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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.

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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?

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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.

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