I was doing my regular 10 k sevice on my stock 1999 TH magna wagon (160,000 K's)
when notice a little bit of oil was seeping out from under ht spark lead cover.
on front bank centre spark plug.
so I pulled off the lead and looked at spark plug and there was 4 -5 cm of engine oil around
spark plug.There was all so oil around the other two plugs. Have not looked at rear bank yet.
Any body seen this before????
I use platium plugs so they have not been looked at for 65,000 K's
oil used: semi synthetic valvoline
car had been running normally with no change in fuel consumption, power or idle

get some new gaskets on yur rocker covers
i changed mine never had a problem since

How much does this cost roughly? cos mechanic said i should get it done next service. its a 3.5L if it makes any difference...

cant remember i did it a while ago,

i think its about $30 or so

im glad i looked at this coz this happened to me ive been waiting for an answer for at least a month, my idle has been shocking. nobody answered my thread. my next thing was to get gaskets and see if it works but meh said it works so ill definetely be doin that this wkend

cheers meh

Yeah pronably your rocker cover gasket, but the are also spark plug tube seals and they have been know to go on a few Magans.....if I remember correctly they are about $20ea.

thanks for the information
wiil change at next oil chnage :D

Yeah pronably your rocker cover gasket, but the are also spark plug tube seals and they have been know to go on a few Magans.....if I remember correctly they are about $20ea.
yep need to change these aswell.. nice n expensive but well worth getting them done