oil in spark plug hole

[jjhdz89]

hey guys so i jus realized my car 90 ex f22a4 started burning oil i usually have to put in new oil every 1000 miles now. i check and noticed that there is oil in one of the spark plug holes now im wondering if there may be a crack in the head or if i may need to rebuild the engine any help is greatly appreciated i love this car and i want to keep it if worse comes to worse ill get a brand new refurbished f22 right now in the mean time im gonna get some additives to see if its just a minor problem thanks and any help or advise is appreciated.

[wed3k]

two seperate issues, that seal that is allowing oil into the spark plug hole is called the lower tube seal. it is common for it to go out.

burning oil could be from rings or valve guides. is it on accel or decel? or is it even visible?

[blk91coupe]

Most likely it is just the gasket that goes between the spark plug tube on the valve cover and the head. I think these gaskets usually come with the valve cover gasket set. They always have when I have replaced valve cover gaskets for these cars.

[RUGER 2.2L]

I would definitely advise against using any kind of additives to stop leaks. They will only make things worse. The only kind of additives I trust are fuel injector cleaners and the such.

[CrazyHondaOwnR]

*edit " dang it while i was typing all this out three people beat me to the punch still i spent like 5 min typing it so there ya go

ok issue 1.... as far as burning oil that could be valve seals.... you could be losing oil from your oil pan gasket to your valve cover not much help there with out more details

and for issue number 2.... its your spark plug tube seals now ... a short leson before i give you the solution .....i can not stress enough the value of searching.... i know the search function on our board kinda sucks thats vbulletin for you how ever you can use google to search by entering what ever you want in google then followed by Site: http:www.cb7tuner.com ..... when i type spark plug oil and add the last bit the 1st link is to a thread very similar to this and the second the link is the one with a dyi to fix it.... now i know i'm probably sounding like kind of a dick but im really not i noticed that your sort of new (Apr 2010) and i figured id enlighten you as how to search .........now as promised thgis is the link to the dyi to fix the tube seals click


and just one more thing kind of an fyi
there was a thread with a very similar title to your question (tube seals) that was on the very first page here in the beg. tech section (or at least it was when i wrote this it may be gone by the time you read this ) .....my point at least try to find your answers bc people like me might not always be here to spoon feed it to you

[jjhdz89]

two seperate issues, that seal that is allowing oil into the spark plug hole is called the lower tube seal. it is common for it to go out.

burning oil could be from rings or valve guides. is it on accel or decel? or is it even visible?

Most likely it is just the gasket that goes between the spark plug tube on the valve cover and the head. I think these gaskets usually come with the valve cover gasket set. They always have when I have replaced valve cover gaskets for these cars.

thanks guys ill go ahead ad switch those out if later on today or tomorrow and wed3k the burning oil is hardly visible but only when its accelerated

I would definitely advise against using any kind of additives to stop leaks. They will only make things worse. The only kind of additives I trust are fuel injector cleaners and the such.

thanks ill skip on the whole additives then ill jus replace the whole valve cover gaskets if that doesnt work i might have to dig deeper

*edit " dang it while i was typing all this out three people beat me to the punch still i spent like 5 min typing it so there ya go

ok issue 1.... as far as burning oil that could be valve seals.... you could be losing oil from your oil pan gasket to your valve cover not much help there with out more details

and for issue number 2.... its your spark plug tube seals now ... a short leson before i give you the solution .....i can not stress enough the value of searching.... i know the search function on our board kinda sucks thats vbulletin for you how ever you can use google to search by entering what ever you want in google then followed by Site: http:www.cb7tuner.com ..... when i type spark plug oil and add the last bit the 1st link is to a thread very similar to this and the second the link is the one with a dyi to fix it.... now i know i'm probably sounding like kind of a dick but im really not i noticed that your sort of new (Apr 2010) and i figured id enlighten you as how to search .........now as promised thgis is the link to the dyi to fix the tube seals click


and just one more thing kind of an fyi
there was a thread with a very similar title to your question (tube seals) that was on the very first page here in the beg. tech section (or at least it was when i wrote this it may be gone by the time you read this ) .....my point at least try to find your answers bc people like me might not always be here to spoon feed it to you

i'll get in to the engine later today to try and pinpoint the leak
and i did search but as you said our search board isnt the best i couldnt get any searches and i actually did try the google with the site name but came up with nothing close to this but that was probably me wording it wrong and thanks for the diy i never thought of looking in the diy since it didnt occur to me this was a common problem with our cars but again thank you
thank you everyone hopefully this will solve my problems and ill post back when i get a better look at the oil situation but i wont be able to if the weather stays as it is right now but again thank you all its people like you that make this site so much better one of the most helpful sites ive come across