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You could try tightening the bolts down a little more for a quick fix.Sometimes the bolts wiggle loose or the gasket shrinks. Not a permanent fix, but it works 85% of the time.
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Be careful torquing something down "a little extra". We're working on aluminum here, so stripping threads is a real danger, and the vast majority of our torque specs are in in-lbs on the motor. Extra tightening should be done with extreme caution.
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 With those words of wisdom I would like to add, use a torque wrench, if the gasket shrank or the bolts are loose you can still torque it to spec. Did I redeem myself? 
Actually you wouldn't be torquing it extra, either way if the bolts wiggled loose, or if the gasket shrank, the bolts will still be loose, so you wouldnt be placing extra pressure, you would be torquing them back to specs.
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Redeemed!  Just wanted to make sure nobody went out to the garage with a socket wrench and started tightening everything in sight. It's easy to forget that we're Aluminum here, especially when a lot of people are used to working on good old American iron where you tighten until it don't go no more.
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Hello again, I notice everyone in a consensus over the oil on the plug threads being caused by the valve cover/spark plug hole gasket. When I had my 2K SVT, I noticed the same thing. The plug's threads were wet with oil and the plug tips were quite "normal". The plug wells, however, were dry as the proverbial bone. The spark plug threads are under the plug seat, so any oil there (on the threads) will have to be explained some other way, as the valve cover gasket is remote, at best, to be the cause. Some of you, I'm sure, have encountered oil in the plug wells. In this instance there would be oil all over the wrench flats, the porcelain insulator and the threads as the plug was withdrawn from the hole. This would indicate a leaky valve cover gasket. I believe oil on the threads ONLY, is the result of an over-achieving PCV system. ...Ed 
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Originally posted by PA 3L SVT:
Redeemed! Just wanted to make sure nobody went out to the garage with a socket wrench and started tightening everything in sight. It's easy to forget that we're Aluminum here, especially when a lot of people are used to working on good old American iron where you tighten until it don't go no more.
 Thank you sir As far as the SVT I'm not sure about, or even a Duratech in general, This was for the Zetec motor. Just take a good look, and try to see if theres a place oil could be coming out of.
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Originally posted by bk4293:
As far as the SVT I'm not sure about, or even a Duratech in general,
Un-redeemed! No H in DURATEC... 
2000 SVT #674
13.47 @ 102 - All Motor!
It was not broke; Yet I fixed it anyway.
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