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What the heck is this?
Lately I thought I felt a slight skip in my car at idle. I decided to check a few plugs just to see how they looked. I checked 1, 3, 5 and 4 because they're the "easy" ones to get to. This is number 5:
Any thoughts on what might be causing that? I suspect my car has bad valve seals due to the oil consumption, and I've seen pictures of plugs that had deposits like that and it was caused by oil. Number 1 looked like that but not as bad, number 3 looked fine, as did number 4: I've got some brand new NGKs ready to go in but I would love to resolve this issue before I install them. |
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Looks like fkn barnicles ...
Looks like valve seals (could be wrong though)
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you adding anything to your oil or fuel?
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Not lately, was going to put some Marvel in the fuel next fillup
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wouldnt matter , it would be on all 8.
Ive never seen that , and for you thats not good. lol.........maybe long term seep from a headgasket on that cylinder?
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I don't think it's a headgasket, the car is never down a drop of coolant.
Here's some pics I found, descriptions said the plugs were from engines that burned oil And here's the pic from the back of the Haynes manual: The engine goes through a quart every 1,000-1,200 miles so it would make sense. Since it still runs strong I suspect it's valve seals, but changing them means having to reset the preload on the rockers, not sure I am up for trying that myself. |
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Stock rockers?
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Yup
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I've done mine, lol.
Pretty easy, just takes some time and gotta pay close attention, save the 6 pack for after lol
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Time for an LS swap.
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