Behaving badly

[Steve Tinker]

Originally Posted by Duquette5

So what causes a spark plug tube and coil to do this:

The broken tube could have been when someone's socket slipped off the spark plug and broke the plastic.
Now the problem is to ascertain where the broken plastic bits & O rings are. I bet they are laying in the cambox or have been chewed up by the camshafts......

FYI - cylinder orientation:
front of car
cylinder 4 ..... 1
cylinder 5 ..... 2
cylinder 6 ..... 3

[Duquette5]

Thanks Steve, I need to print out the orientation and tape it to my tool box. So its 5&6 that are leaking. I'll pull the tube for 5 this afternoon and use a dental mirror and some angled forceps and see if I can fish the bits out. I did see a rather large chunk of the coil plug boot sticking out of the oil passage that is up and to the rear of 6.

Hmm now question of the day... That indicates to me that the oil flows towards the rear of the engine in the passages . Is 6 the last passage set before heading to the sump? If so I may have gotten lucky and will just have to drop the sump and fish any extra bits out. I know I know wishful thinking....