Oil on spark plug
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Oil on spark plug Well my trans am that I purchased about a month ago all the sudden threw a blinking SES light at me. I drove it straight to a mechanic and the spark plug had oil on it and a new one put in its place also had oil on it on the number 5 cylinder. He also said something about only 26 lbs of compression. I only put about 1500 miles on the car mostly highway in 6th since I purchased it. I don't know much about how the internals work in these cars, but how serious of a problem is this?
EDIT: also I thought that a tranny mount was out because the shifter would shake back and forth, especially in 5th and 6th. Also when i backed up my car sometimes it would make a loud bang and then stall, almost like i didn't give it enough gas, but I am sure that I did.
Details of the car are in my sig.
EDIT: also I thought that a tranny mount was out because the shifter would shake back and forth, especially in 5th and 6th. Also when i backed up my car sometimes it would make a loud bang and then stall, almost like i didn't give it enough gas, but I am sure that I did.
Details of the car are in my sig.
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This just in the number 5 exhaust pushrod is broken and the number 7 intake pushrod is bent. They said that someone overrevved the engine. I know that it wasn't me, I never took it above 5.5k. Sound like i need some new heads?
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This just in the number 5 exhaust pushrod is broken and the number 7 intake pushrod is bent. They said that someone overrevved the engine. I know that it wasn't me, I never took it above 5.5k. Sound like i need some new heads?
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The reason that I think that I may need new heads is that the bent pushrod may have (and I'm sorry, like I said, this is not something that I am not knowedgable, thus I may be totally wrong) shaved some metal off where it was in the head and the tolerances may be too loose for a new pushrod.
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Well, I guess that according to the mechanic all he needed to do was replace the pushrods. Should I have someone like Bob at EPP take a look at the engine to see if anything else could be wrong with it due to running broken pushrods for a while? Also is it possible for the pushrods to bent, then break under normal driving conditions much later down the road?
Originally Posted by Rabada
Well, I guess that according to the mechanic all he needed to do was replace the pushrods. Should I have someone like Bob at EPP take a look at the engine to see if anything else could be wrong with it due to running broken pushrods for a while? Also is it possible for the pushrods to bent, then break under normal driving conditions much later down the road?
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