I used to have a hesitation problem just when the car was moving, now it has progressed to a misfire at idle. This morning I checked the POS's by disconnecting the injectors and everytime the idle worsened, so I moved on to plugs. When I got the cover off, I noticed that a few of the boots had oil on them, leading me to think that the plugs had backed out,which they had. I re-torqued them to 22 ft. lbs and started the car up, and it was still misfiring. I am looking for other ideas to what it could be, and looking for cheap things to try first, unfortunately there are few things that can be done "cheap" with these cars. I am thinking of replacing the fuel filter and plugs at the moment and looking for other ideas as what to replace that wouldnt put that big of a dent in the wallet. Thanks in advance.
-Eric

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Sounds like your cam cover gasket may have failed allowing oil from inside the cam cover galley into the sparkplug wells, causing a deterioration of the rubber coil to plug "boots". Replace the gasket, replace the boots and replace the plugs (F5DP0R Bosch) while you are there.

Otherwise, your symptoms did sound like a dead POS.

Boots are under $5 each at FAP99

It was really helpful, thanks for that. Thats how I found out how to check the pos, so I looked through more of the FAQ and found out about the cam gasket and the oily boots, so I was just looking for some helpful insight. Thanks for the help Dave.

Is it possible they already went bad?

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You want the cam cover gasket set, complete with the five round gaskets that seal oil out of the sparkplug wells.

See the link below<ul><li><a href="http://www.fap99.com/epcvsoapimc.epc?cookieID=21A0UXE5H21A0UXPNJ&amp;drilli d=8&amp;subcatid=800988@@Cylinder+Head&amp;clientid=fap99">Link to FAP99 page with the cam cover gasket set (at the top of the page)</a></li></ul>

Sold the rest of the stuff already :)

I could come pick them up tomorrow or whenever is convenient for you... email me at fager 0 5 6 @ umn . edu(remove spaces of course)
Thanks