Oil in the plug wells!!!?

[SHOv6]

I noticed my car chugging quite a bit on the way home, so I got here and pulled open the hood. The car would miss and lose power when I drove it today and upon opening the hood I say that 1 of the 3 rubber plugs and had come off. I tried to push it back down in and when I did so I heard a slurping sound and the plug won't stay down. The plug is covered in oil now and this is my only car. I REALLY need some quick help from you guys. 1. Is it safe to drive it 2. What needs replaced? Is it fixable? The owner before me claimed they had a 60k tunup done to it. It's at 114,000 now so it prolly needs another one. What can I do for right now?

 

[SHOv6]

Anyone? Please I need advice ASAP

 

[betterman]

Well you can soak up all the excess the oil in the plug wells and that might buy you a little bit of time. But this will only help if the oil has not already shorted out your plug wires. All that oil in your plug wells means that probably both your valve cover seals and plug well seals need replacing. The valve cover seals should have been replaced during the 60k but the plug well seals may or may not have (most likely not).

 

[SHOtimer]

You need to do an upper 60k. For now, untill you can get around to doing it suck the oil out (UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES LET THE OIL GO INTO THE COMPBUSTION CHAMBER BY TAKING OUT THE SPARK PLUG!) and driving it untill you can get the 60k done. You can do an upper 60k in a day. You will need valve cover gaskets (which come with the gaskets for your plug wells, you need new spark plugs (motorcraft) and new wires (people only used to use motorcraft but now their are cheaper alternatives.

Doug

 

[Off Road SHO]

Roll up some cheapy paper towels into "tubes" that will fit down over the spark plug and soak up as much oil as you can. Have all six soaking at the same time. Keep putting in paper tubes until you get it all out.

You can add a little mineral spirits to the last little bit of oil to thin it out and make it more "soakable". No more than a table spoon per well. You can even swish it around the spark plug with a screwdriver tip to help it mix with the oil.

If you have a blow gun with access to compressed air, you can make a dandy little "spark plug well oil remover" attachment out of a 12" piece of brake line with the appropriate fitting to fit your blow gun.

Then just insert the brake line into the well and wrap a shop rag arount the brake line to catch and absorb the oil that will come out with the air. To do the back bank, put a 90 degree bend at an appropriate spot in the brake line.

This will get almost all of your oil out and buy you some time to get all of the stuff for your upper 60k tune-up.

Good luck.

Tom

 

[SHOv6]

Thanks guys