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Oil or fuel in #1 runner

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  • Start date Start date Aug 22, 2004
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90whitepony

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Had the upper intake off yesterday and noticed that the number one runner was wet.It was not soeked but it was wet and so was the plenum gasket.All the others were fine.I could not really tell if it was oil or gas I would have to say gas cause it was not very dark.Is this normal.Any info would be great.
 

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Since the injector is near the bottom of the runner - normally there wouldn't be any way for gasoline to be in the intake upstream of the injection point. Remember, the pcv vents the crankcase into the intake manifold. Over the years, oil vapors can deposit quite a bit of oil throughout the intake manifold - quite normal. Additionally, each time you crank up the car, especially when it's colder outside, condensate that has occurred inside the engine gets boiled off and it goes into the intake as well - water mixing with oil - creates some really yucky stuff. Most intakes will have some measure of that stuff coating their insides.

If you're not having any other symptoms - a little wetness in the intake probably isn't anything to worry with.

One thing to check is that sometimes coolant from the egr spacer can leak into the intake. Could that be happening? If so, perhaps one of your egr spacer gaskets has failed.
 
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I am having problems with it idleing that I can not figure out.I can pretty much rule out coolant as the all the gaskets are new I just put the heads and intake on last Augest.I dont have cooant running through the egr anymore I just was not sure if it waas kinda normal or not .
 

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Have you pulled the diagnostic codes to see what they tell you?
 
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yup only got codes for evap which I dont have hooked up
 
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