Holy ****!! I’ve been posting one problem after another!!! So, I totally cleaned my engine today to find out where I’m leaking oil. I’m driving down the highway at about 55 when my car starts bogging down and jerking. Then the check engine light comes on. Fantastic I think!!! I pull over and check under the hood and wut do I see??? Wut looks like honey mustard all over the TOP of my valve cover where the spark plug wires are. Now I knew I was leaking oil into the spark plug holes and it was coming out the top, but now it looks like frigg’n honey mustard!!! I’m thinking it’s coolant mixed with the oil. NOT GOOD!!!
I THINK it might be a blown head gasket, but I’m really not sure. PLEEEEEEEASE give me some input as to wut it might be. I dont have the money to try a million different things. THANK YOU for your help!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Well, if it is on top of your valve cover then it is not a blown head gasket. You would notice it leaking between the head and the block if it was.
It sounds like you need to get a new valve cover gasket, spark plug grommets and valve cover grommets installed and get your motor cleaned up again and see if you notice anything after that.
I cant think of anything that looks like honey mustard in a motor…
Also, when oil and coolant mix, it stays seperate. You will see either a lot of coolant with drops of oil in it or a lot of oil with drops of coolant in it. They just dont combine…
Maybe your girlfriend was pissed off at you and put honey mustard in your spark plug holes :shock: You never know…
i know they dont mix, but the coolant i have is brown, it was red but i mixed green with it. and since the gaskets were bad and were leaking oil, i’m almost positive that it’s the coolant coming out of the top as well!!!
I agree with BR, it does not sound like a blown headgasket. I would check your electrics as well. If you cleaned your engine using water, or some other type of liquid cleaner, and the the electrics were not protected, that would cause the symtoms you described. As for the honey mustard, if you did use water, or some type of cleaner, than you possibly could have not gotten all of it out, and it came out, dirt and all, as you were driving.
ok if this is the problem then smack me… i think that i got engine degreaser into 1 or 2 of the spark plug holes and then got water down there as well seeing as though i didn’t cover them when i hit them with the high pressure hose :shock: my friend told me that the water is mixing with the spark and creating a mess down there. That’s why the first two plugs on the left seem fine, they have just oil on the bottom of them (i gotta replace the seals) but the one all the way on the right is naaaaasty, it’s like an oily mustard combo!!! And really that’s the only one that doesn’t look like oil, so I’m think’n if it’s only on 1 cylinder it’s not the head gasket???
You’re probably right – that would explain the jerking and bogging too, though I’m surprised it didn’t do that as soon as you drove it after washing it…
As for cleaning the plug holes out now? just don’t take out the plugs to do it, or you’ll get water and degreaser on to the pistons.
I would thinkin blowing it out with an air compressor would probably work best. Put the gun into the hole, and hold a rag over it, and blow. Keep doin that til it’s dry.
Hopefully that solves the problem!
Also, check your oil and just make SURE there’s no antifreeze in with the oil so you know for sure it’s not the head gasket.