On 1/25/06, Terrible Tom <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Thought I was scottfree after doing the alternator change. The car
> threw a check engine light as I started it up to go to work yesterday
> AM. Code 43... misfire of some sorts I gather. Its a 1996 Plymouth
> SOHC 2.0. The gy I bought it from threw in a new set of plugs because
> it was misfiring then as well. What its doing is starting up from cold,
> it idles poor - yo ucan tell its misfiring. THen when it warms up some
> it seems to be ok. GUy I bought it from said that ther ewas oil leaking
> past the plug boots into the plug tubes and "fouling out the plugs"
> Well i dont see how thats possible after I looked into this - the plugs
> seal into the head like on any other engine and theres no way the oil
> could foul out the tips? I'm thinking if the tips were fouled - it was
> from misfires and carbon build up.
>
> I pulled the plug wires - and 3 and 4 did have oil all over the ends.
> He said he put silicon on the tube ends to seal them? Arnt these tubes
> supposed to have o-ring seals between them and the valve cover?
Scary.
Head gasket? Piston ring blow-by?
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