The engine was running rough and I had the code read that indicated that cylinder number 1 was misfiring. I pulled the spark plug out and it was fouled. I changed it. All the other spark plugs were fine but I changed them, too. In a few days the same thing happened again. I pulled the spark plug from cylinder number 1 again and the spark plug was real oily. Also, I am losing a lot of coolant and cannot find any obvious leak anywhere. It also seems that the oil level on the dip stick is increasing and the oil has a murky appearance. A couple of weeks before I had this problem the car had a noisy lifter on start up. I added some Rislone to the oil. In a few days it corrected the noisy lifter. I don't know if this had any effect on the spark plug problem or not.
Mar 2, 2008 at 7:08 PM
