So I'm trying to nut out why I am fouling plugs.
carbon fouling most, but wet fouling cyl #1.
So after scratching my head a few times, I start from the air side of things.
Go to check what I thought was a paper element filter and low and behold, the underside of the hose connecting the throttle body to filter housing is soaked in oil. Not good me thinks.
pull it apart and it is dripping in oil.
I quickly learn that my car has an oil bath filter.
I don't think it had ever been pulled apart as it took a while to get the middle mesh to budge (in fact, I thought it was a complete sealed unit as the thing just wouldn't move, despite what the schematics I had seen were trying to tell me!) Quite a fair amount of sludge in there, and quite a lot of oil. over all of the meshes and on the snorkel. Maybe the hose leading to inlet manifold was sucking in sludge and coating cyl #1 with it?
I've started to clean it all up, but I cannot find the "paint blob" or scribe mark that I keep reading about in reference to how much oil to add.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I am dearly trying to resist just putting a pod style filter over the throttle body....