It's nice having a Mechanic live close by, what I can't fix or know nothing about, he helps me with advice, or I pay him to fix it.

My wife drives small older cars in the country, just to get to work, she doesn’t want anything newer because of the number of Deer that she has hit or they have run into her car. Anyway her 2000 Plymouth Neon was running rough, she said I should put a set of plugs in the car. I said it has too many miles it’s time to give it up, she would not accept that from me. I start pulling the plug wires with the tubes going through the valve cover, two are fine one has some oil, and one was loaded with oil, and the end of the boot was burnt pretty bad. I put my plug socket in to get the spark plug out, the socket looked like it was dipped it oil.

I asked my neighbor Mechanic about this, he said either it was coming from the valve cover or coming past the spark plug. He said to wrap the plug with Teflon tape, and it may stop the oil if it’s coming up from the piston. I used the yellow Teflon tape because it says for gas, oil, and petroleum products. The car has 185,439 miles so if I can get it to go a little longer it will be worth the effort.

If anyone has tips for simple things please post them.

Richard