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[ngrainqey]

right then...
sorted out my air leak tonight i think...
car started quite easily actually with a tad of throttle after getting any air out of the injectors (and getting covered in petrol)
then held it at high tick over on the throttle body and then all of a sudden it got quite rough with a miss fire on cyl 6 i think-
i think it's just oil gushing out of passenger side cam cover gasket in general (drivers side is fine atm as the plugs are good clean and dry )

just a yes or maybe answer would be good! i'll go back to noseying if it's a no or maybe

[markey mark]

get the oil out alex try again matey  

[ngrainqey]

got the oil out the other day and it started intermitently (cos of the airleak)
seems to dump oil in the plug wells

[chrisdb]

Change cam cover gaskets and plugs?

[feeutfo]

seen a few omegas run quite happily with wells full of oil. So the mere presence of oil is not necessarily going to cause an instant missfire with healthy ignition parts imho. Sounds like some sort of damage to the lead or plug is causing a missfire when oil is again present. Clearly not much point proceeding  until the cam cover seals and breathers are sorted. Then change plugs(from vx cheapest) and see what you have. Probablly split rubber boots on the plugs. You "May" want to enquire if 4 pot rubbers fit v6 leads if thats the case, as from what i have read vx dont stock v6 rubbers. Or if symptoms persist its new leads/ dis pac. But you probably knew most of that...
Er, unless that injector is playing up? Paper clip test cant hurt...

[feeutfo]

just trying to picture v6 plug leads, god my memory is crap, are they molded in one piece? Anyone?

If so 4 pot rubbers will not help. Saw a thread the other day that suggested it and seemed plausible at the time...

[MutantCav]

I have a set of good v6 leads you can try out mate, but you really need to clean the breather system first...that will slow down the flow of oil anyway and needs doing regardless and as your putting 3.0 cams in...do it and sort out the cam covers and jobs a goodun! Oils just going to cause problems if you keep trying it before sorting the gaskets...