Oil on spark plugs. HELP

[squashic]

I went to change my spark plugs today and all of them were covered in oil. Help please

[steve97]

Not terribly uncommon,nor too difficult ($$) to repair. Will have (or have dealer do) to remove the valve cover. When you look at it, 4 tubes (4 cylinder of course) will be sticking up. These are the tubes that your spark plugs go down into. Unscrew the tubes, remove the round gaskets and replace with new gaskets. Screw it back in, put a new valve cover gasket and reseat the valve cover.

[Cyorke]

It is not always they gaskets at the top of the tube. It can also be the seal where they are screwed into the head. IT was pretty common for them to leak there. We used to reseal them all the time at the dealership I worked at. Very seldom did we replace the gaskets though. THey are still fairly easy to reseal. They make a tool for removing them or you can jsut remove them with apair of channel locks clean the threads off very well and reseal. You may want to call a dealer though and ask what they use to seal them with. We used some type of sealer and I can not remember the name of it. It was this nasty brown stiff in a can with yellow writing on it and an applicator brush int he jar attached to the lid.

[Leinad]

Year and mileage should help answer it....