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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: grennanp on 21 June 2008, 21:13:45

Title: Sluggish and misfiring
Post by: grennanp on 21 June 2008, 21:13:45: Hi all.....
Every now and then the car gets very sluggish, smelly and it fells lke it's not firing on all plugs. When I check the plugs the one at the back of the block (nearest the windscreen) is dripping with what seems to be oil, I dry it off and away I go for another while.
Has anyone any idea what might be causing this please?

Cheers.
Title: Re: Sluggish and misfiring
Post by: Dazzler on 21 June 2008, 21:15:55: Leaking rocker cover gasket, by the sounds of it ;)
Title: Re: Sluggish and misfiring
Post by: alexandjen on 21 June 2008, 21:16:00: Leaking rocker cover gasket due to blocked breathers.

Edit: faster typist!!

Edit again - have a look here..........

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1152565472

And here..........

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1180463563

Make sure you clean the breathers as well :y
Title: Re: Sluggish and misfiring
Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 22 June 2008, 00:40:53: Yeap agree with what the others have put :y

Pull your plug lead off the spark plug again and have a look down at the spark plug, if there is oil in there mate your Cam Cover Gaskets need replacing... The main reason for this common problem is not having regular oil changes, and the breathers being blocked... There is a "How Too" in the maintaince section to help..
Don't worry to much though as to do it yourself parts should cost around £70 to do the job :y
But get it done sooner rather than later as after time the oil will breakdown your plug leads too...
Title: Re: Sluggish and misfiring
Post by: wedge on 22 June 2008, 04:30:53: hi :)

this may be ignorant, but i've had my mig for 2 years now & i've been reading & thinking about cleaning the breathers, does putting any of the fuel/jet cleaner liquids in the petrol dissolve anything, or is it just the physical get to them & clean the crap out ?

martin
Title: Re: Sluggish and misfiring
Post by: rickyboy on 22 June 2008, 10:59:31: Physically take the crap out I'm afraid. Never believed in these petrol additives - I personally believe they don't do anything at all.