RE: another question about 74 spider

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

> this one should be quick. if all goes well I'll be picking up the 74
> spider around the 20 to 25th of january, and I will be double checking
> this item then. In the meantime, here's my question.
>
> Based on the pictures I've seen, the engine looks as I would expect it to.
> The engine looked clean, however, there appeared to be some oil down in
> the well where the first plug was. Using paper towel I collected some of
> it and it looked like fairly clean oil. The seller indicated that he must
> have spilled some oil when he poured it in. Given the location of the oil
> cap and the plug this certainly seems plausible. Does it seem plausible to
> the rest of you? The car ran smooth at idle and up on the freeway -
> admittedly I didn't push it hard though. Certainly didn't act like a plug
> was fouled, though it the car did have bosche platinum plugs.

It's possible.

Another common cause of oil in the #1 plug well is a loose oil cap.  You can
bend and tighten the little arms that hold the cap on, you can replace the
gasket inside the cap, or you can replace the entire cap.

bs

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