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#1 ·
Well I've had 7 months of enjoyable motoring in my 156 JTS, few electrical gremlins (could do with a new battery me thinks), and a erattic engine noise caused by a collapsed aux tensioner.

Now lies this issue or rough idling, so off to the shop to get me new spark plugs (as I don't know how old the current set are), quite a few ££££ later I get home and start to fit them.....

Spark plug 1, full of oil, spark plug 2 smidge of oil round the seal, 3 ok, 4 ok.

Now I now I have an oil leak, 1: running down the cambelt cover, and 2: leaking from the far side of the cam cover.

So done me a little bit of homework and found that if at some point, the cam cover was removed (say during a cam belt change) the gasket sould be replaced to create a nice seal, well I'm guessing that it wasn't changed, so I am left with trying to hunt down a new cam cover gasket.

Can anyone point me in the right direction, as currently I can't seem to find one, or a price of one for that matter (2.0 JTS)

Cheers.

Andy.
 
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Many thanks, I'll detour over to Alfa tomorrow after work.

I'll replace things one by one, I'll first address the issue with plug 1 filling with oil, the rest of the oil seeping out only dripps off at the gear box. (the oil finds it's way onto the "crank breather"?? the black thing at the front of the engine, down a pipe, into the air flow and covers the gear box in some oil, where as then at stand still I get a couple of drips each week).

I've not spotted any oil dripping form the botton of the cam belt end, the road dust manages to soak it up.
 
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