I have an oil leaking into all the spark plug terminals. I bought a new cylinder head cover hoping it's just warn away and gotten brittle. But trying to get the rocket cover off is impossible because of this pipe that's in the way of one side of the cover.

 

Can anyone help me as I can't confidently identify what it is/how to safely remove it so I can replace the seals. 

 

BONUS EXTRA PICTURE - my breather pipe snapped in the process. This is fun, huh! 

 

 

Edited 28 November, 20241 yr by skodasbitch
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Hi. welcome.

 

With the decades use of plastics, particularly on the German marques like VW,  you do need care with them and of course more so on 19 year old engine but then some would have crack or broken well before then.  At least VW put the part numbers on the parts.  You may be better for this specific repair looking and/or posting in the Octavia Mk2 forum and I don't know if it's typos or predictive text that has rocket instead of rocker or if VW owners/enthusiasts use that term for the part.

 

Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013) - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/28-skoda-octavia-mk-ii-2004-2013/

 

Good luck.

 

Edited 28 November, 20241 yr by nta16
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24 minutes ago, nta16 said:

and I don't know if it's typos or predictive text text that has rocket instead of rocker or if VW owners/enthusiasts use that term for the part.

 

 

 

Hahaha oooops! Definitely a typo! 

And so was my text text I've just seen in your quote.

 

Not sure but if its the small pipe that you are pointing at and  it needs to be removed then I would just remove it. If its oil then its high up so shouldn't lose much if any. If its coolant then be prepared to top up afterwards. As its high up on the engine I doubt you would lose much of either. Replace with a decent stainless jubilee clip or similar. You could try a small pry bar and see if you could move it enough to remove cover. Be careful not to use to much pressure as the last thing you want is to break it or kink the metal pipe. Can you see where the metal pipe goes?

Alasdair