So, I'm sitting in my driveway installing the SVO/Borla side exhaust kit in my '98 Mustang GT, just drilling some holes in the side skirts for some hangers.
Some dude in a Honda hooptie rolls up on the street in front of my house. It's an Accord wagon, early '90s vintage it looks like. He's having some trouble...he's just rolled down the hill trying to roll-start it and now he's at the bottom of the hill. He gets out and asks me if I have any idea what's wrong with it, since he figures I'm working on my car so I must know something about cars.
I know Mustangs, but I don't know dick about Hondas. So I tell him to crank the engine, it cranks but doesn't fire. Towards the end of the crank it sounds a little like it's gonna catch but it doesn't. So I take a peek at all his fuses, they all look good. There's a little oil on the head, above where I assume the gasket to be. I pull the wires off whatever passes for a distributor on a 16V Honda motor, they look good. I pull the wires out of the spark plug wells, and at the ends are these rubber tubes which I think are supposed to be there, but they're covered in oil. This is something I don't expect. (I recall helping some neighbor kids change the plugs in their Honda a few years back and IIRC the plug boots were dry.) Am I wrong in thinking this is a Bad Thing? Any idea what might have caused this?
I'm thinking that the gasket might be bad or something, letting oil into the cylinder headspace and into the spark plugs, which I assume would prevent the plugs from firing. But that's just conjecture on my part since I'm totally not familiar with Hondas.
Some dude in a Honda hooptie rolls up on the street in front of my house. It's an Accord wagon, early '90s vintage it looks like. He's having some trouble...he's just rolled down the hill trying to roll-start it and now he's at the bottom of the hill. He gets out and asks me if I have any idea what's wrong with it, since he figures I'm working on my car so I must know something about cars.
I know Mustangs, but I don't know dick about Hondas. So I tell him to crank the engine, it cranks but doesn't fire. Towards the end of the crank it sounds a little like it's gonna catch but it doesn't. So I take a peek at all his fuses, they all look good. There's a little oil on the head, above where I assume the gasket to be. I pull the wires off whatever passes for a distributor on a 16V Honda motor, they look good. I pull the wires out of the spark plug wells, and at the ends are these rubber tubes which I think are supposed to be there, but they're covered in oil. This is something I don't expect. (I recall helping some neighbor kids change the plugs in their Honda a few years back and IIRC the plug boots were dry.) Am I wrong in thinking this is a Bad Thing? Any idea what might have caused this?
I'm thinking that the gasket might be bad or something, letting oil into the cylinder headspace and into the spark plugs, which I assume would prevent the plugs from firing. But that's just conjecture on my part since I'm totally not familiar with Hondas.
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