Recent content by Taco Pete

Yea, there's definitely some slickness towards the #5 around the valve cover. Looks like it's leaked from the driver's side too, but doesn't look to be currently.

Not sure, but I'll look tomorrow. I just took it for a drive on the highway, up hills and such to get it nice and heated up to see if the cat converter started glowing from maybe being clogged. It wasn't glowing, but it did look like there had been work done between the cat and the muffler...

Annnnnd, one more thing (as I read about clogged cat converters). I notice a rattling noise when I accelerate.

Here it is. All other plugs had regular wear.

Let me add this, when I pulled the boot from the plug Saturday, the boot itself was slick with oil where it was tough to get a grip on it. The boot was also defective, so I changed out that wire (going to change the rest this weekend). I put a new radiator in about 6 months ago and the fluid...

Sorry, DD?

Ok everyone. I have a 95 with the 3.0 3vze. Just replaced the spark plugs the other day. When I pulled the dreaded and very hard to find #5, I found oil on the threads. After reading forum after forum, I was not happy to find out about the problem with blown head gaskets on this engine...