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Old May 13, 2007 | 07:50 PM
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Well I opened my valve cover today and the valve cover gasket looks okay regardless I ordered one from Ebay. I have some oil in my 4th cylinder where my spark plug is. I made a thread a few months back about this and everyone said its the valve cover gasket. Any other suggestions?
Old May 13, 2007 | 07:52 PM
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looks can be deceiving
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There is no other way for oil to get in there unless someone poured it in. A new valve cover gasket should solve it. May as well replace the cam angle sensor o-ring as well as the plug wires if that one wire has been sitting in oil.
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True, I swapped in BKR7E but I need to gap them. Does .35 sound right?
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Yeah that sounds like a good starting place. Start wide and don't close it up untill you start getting ignition breakup/spark blow out.
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