schumak

Hey guys,
Couple of days back I filled my car with the oil from the bottle...I believe I might have over filled it. Anyway, I did about 100km after that without a problem, the next day I was driving some more and in the evening I was sitting in the car on idle listening to music and all of the sudden the car shut off, then it wouldn't run, I start it and it dies right away, it runs when I give lots more gas, if I don't, it dies.

I removed the spark plug wires and saw that all my spark plugs are sunk in oil... I asumed that was the problem so I went and bought new sparkplugs (I cleaned out all the oil that was there in the spark plug shaft). I ran the car again and got the same result. 3 of the 4 sparkplugs showed black residue after the first run. My dad says it might be a cylinder that is not working. When it runs the car vibrates mad and gives short fires of exhaust with a smoke. I have not seen the smoke but my dad said it's there.

Anything I should check out? Please help.
Oh and I got a 1995 Honda Civic Dx coupe.

sohcnotec

The oil on plugs may just be a leaking spark plug tube gasket.
The smoke and rough idle may be a head gasket.

imported_kIeRaN

what color is the smoke it spits out?

schumak

What would happen if one of the cylinders were out of commission?

sohcnotec

It would have a very rough idle and lots of vibration like you said.

Quick check to know if a cylinder isn't puting out anything:
If it will stay idling, one at at time pull out the spark plug wire.
The cylinder that makes no/little change in rpm/eng speed is the cyl to look into.

schumak

Haha, my car doesn't idle at all, as soon as I let go of the gas the car dies, no idle what so ever. Could it be more than one cylinder out?