Sho running wierd

[dwarf]

THanks for all of your guys help. There isn't any oil in the plug wells, and has never been since I owned the car. (I got it with 112k and now it has 119k) since I've gotten it i've changed my air filter, fuel pump, fuel strainer, fuel filter, spark plugs and spark wires along with brakes and rotors) The wires are Taylor and the plugs are motocraft, with ~7,000 miles on them. So I dont think that the wires are old.

at my lunch I pulled the wires off the rear bank and from what I could tell everything back there looked dry. so i dont know exactly what to do, the oil seems fines but the car just feels like its missing, and it also smells like uburnt gas.

Im going to try and run the KOEO and KEOR tests on my break if I can find a paperclip or wire overhere.

Im sad and stumped

 

[dwarf]

The reason the plug wells fill up with oil is that the plugwell seal is old and not sealing very well, AND (this is the important part so pay attention) the plugwire boot seals against the valve cover too well, sort of.

When the air trapped inside the plug well heats up during driving, it expands and therefore forces its way out of the well past the plug wire's boot. When it cools down the well tries to suck air back into the well. The boot seals better than the valve cover seal at the bottom so air is sucked in along with any oil that is around the base seal.

Water that is splashed up onto the valve cover's recessed groove around the plug wells is sucked into the well as soon as the cooling down process begins. Especially so if the bottom plug well seals are doing their job well. The vacuum that is created by a cooling down plugwell will suck in anything that is near that hole, whether it be water, air or antifreeze. Didn't you guys ever see the ending to Alien Ressurection?:laugh_ti:

Here is a solution if you're tired of cleaning the water and oil out of the plug wells and you don't want to change out the bottom plug well seals. Vent the plug wells. Easy to do and works well; we used to do it on all of our off road cars that we drove in rain and DEEP puddles.

To do this you need to place a small vent hole in the top of each boot. I used a hot ice pick. A drill bit doesn't do a very clean job but it will work also. You want to drill into the "high" side of the boot, above the wire. There isn't much room between the wire and the valve cover sealing lip, so if you aren't sure, pull the plug wire out and poke the hole from the inside.

If you needs pics to understand all of this, let me know and I will post a pic or two.

Tom

I would love to see a pic of your plug wells/ boot cover whenever you get the chance, Thanks!

 

[dwarf]

ugh spent my break trying to run the codes (i've done it before) and for some reason it's not doing anything. I put it on the bottom right of the big connector and into the single connector and nothign was happening when I turn the key to the start position, when I did it in the past my fans turned on almost instantly and it started running the test.

I even cut the wire for my multimeter and put it in to connect it and still nothing on key turn ?

 

[TopGunnYFZ]

I thought it was the bottom left one? I call the side with the 2 prongs the bottom.

Go here and double check your using the right spots.

http://www.shophoenixproject.com/eec/eec.htm

 

[dwarf]

When I ran the cylinder test it flashed 3 twice. So I think it may be an issue with the 3rd cylinder?

The other codes I got were just stored codes I think. I left them at my house, but they were. 117 156 538 536 I think.. not too sure exactly they're at my house