I recently posted about my car turning over, but not firing. It turned out to be my spark plugs.. I just put 3 new ones in today to see if they would work,and itfired justfine. My question starts here: there was a fairly large build up of gunk on my spark plugs, and I just replaced them not 4 months ago.. Where could this be coming from? I'm sure it's a gasket leak of some sort, but, I'm trying to figure out which gasket exactly of course.

 

What color was the gunk?

 

pretty dark brown almost black, and pretty viscous.. I didn't go as far to smell it, but I would assume it's a combination of gasoline and oil

 

I can't remember off the top of my head, but you could be running a rich air/fuel mixture. I'd have to check my engines book, but that's all the way downstairs, and you know...downstairs is not within my reach.

 

haha well thanks for the fast response.. This is really the least of my problems.. More posts yet to come.