Type 44: Strange oily wet pattern around No.4 sparkplug.

[William Ng]

Folks,

A few weeks ago, I noticed what looks like motor oil, wet staining the
area around the #4 sparkplug hole. I couldn't spot a loose spark plug so I
made a mental note of it, thinking maybe I spilled something there.

This weekend while satiating the 200q's appetite for Pentosin, I noticed
that the wetness has spread outward and upward on the cylinder head. But
the sparkplug cable/boot is dry. The stain looks like oil, there's no
black soot or gasoline smell.

Well, it's either just a loose sparkplug or the PO has stripped that hole
and there's a Helacoil in there that's not sealing properly.
:-\

Just wanted to know how do the plug wires come off, since these have metal
jackets. Do they pull out like other rubber-booted cables? What is the
torque spec for our sparkplugs? My Bentleys are about 250 miles away from
me.

TIA,
Will



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William Ng
1990 200 quattro
audi200quattro at yahoo.com    willng at netzero.net

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