I would use SOME motor craft parts Cam cover gasket and they are CAM covers thats whats inside of them.. The doorman intake is fine. I have installed 2 1 actually was a different cheaper one I got off amazon forget the brands name but is working just fine on my sisters town car. I think what your seeing as oil is just probably really dirty water that leaked out of the intake into the spark plug hole mixing with road grime. looks like oil but it aint. Prolly water from your intake leak. Hard for oil to make it into those holes it would most likely run around the cover and show up on the ground as an oil leak. If the Cam cover gasket was bad and like I said they use a really thick rubber gasket that from looking at one I can never imagine one failing. Any thing possible. Get the intake off and look at it. If the covers are leaking you should be able to tell. 182k really isnt high miles for one of these motors. They last over 300k all the time. Many out there with 500k on them. I would get a piece of conduit the aluminum pipe and cut it jagged ust it to stick down the plug holes and work road grime loose then blow them out with compressed air then remove the plugs. Good luck!..

 

I see the pics now.. No I dont think the Cam gaskets are bad dont see a big enough oil mess but I'm not up close. You'll have to make that call..

 

I think you are right. The gaskets just don't look like the source of the oil. The spark plug holes, literally would coat the spark plug socket with clean looking oil, dirt on coils though down there). Literally pushing the socket and hearing that suction sounds as it goes through the liquid. Pul the socket out and the entire side of socket coated with oil. All the sparkplugs were tight too.

I'm confused at this point because where else could the oil come from if not from the valve/cam covers? I'll try researching more. Thank you for your help!

 

What plugs have oil what numbers? Its possible someone could have spilled oil while adding if the oil is near the oil fill I'd go with that.

 

6 and 7.

I recently replaced the coil and plug on 5 due to the hurricane watering driving the kid did. When i pulled that coil then, it was dirty and oily film, but no liquid in the tube.

 

I'm not going to be alarmed by it and will continue on with the intake!

 

It actually is very easy for oil to get into the intake runners. If you've got a defective PCV valve, it's very plausible that oil will come up through there and cause what you are seeing. Use a Motorcraft PCV valve ONLY. You're flirting with disaster if you use a parts house brand.

 

I got lucky yesterday and scored a metal one off a 99 expedition yesterday at the pull a part. Had the same problem as you start a few days ago.

 

Somethings very wrong, I haven't seen an engine that dirty/caked up inside in awhile. The last time was, it was a lady with a Windstar. She had 65,000 miles on it , but never changed the oil.

Yea, unless I'm not seeing those pictures clearly ? It looks heavily caked, not saying you don't change your oil...don't take that wrong. Looks like the engine couldn't breath for a very long time. Like a plugged up PCV/Breather system. Of course, -many many short trips will do them in as well since there's really no way to keep up with oil changes if te engine hasen't had the time to run full cycle and burn off blow-by.

If I had to guess, that engine has suffered from lack of PCV, -hasn't been able to breath correctly for as long time. Hard to blame someone for it or point the finger. Not everyone is aware that a Motorcraft is the ONLY PCV valve that belongs on these engines. All other makes/knockoffs choke the life out of them slowly...way too restrictive.

 

^^^ Smart dude here.... listen very well. He knows his stuff.