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Offline tim145tim

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oil on HT leads?
« on: 17 February 2008, 17:51 »
Just changed my HT leads set as one of them had a rubbish connection...

On about 2 of the old ones, when I pulled them out, there was quite a bit of oil on the bottom of them (long end into the spark plugs).

Is this normal?

Dont think the spark plugs have been changed for a while, so that might be it?


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Offline Pete Taylor

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Re: oil on HT leads?
« Reply #1 on: 17 February 2008, 17:55 »
That'll be a rocker cover leaking oil into the spark plug ports which also causes misfires etc if too bad. Must be quite bad for you to notice it though. A new rocker cover gasket is about a fiver and dead easy to change. But you have the ABF so you have to take off all the inlet manifold to get to it first!
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