Depends on how much you like to spend money. Glowshift plate thing is super easy. Homemade plug you have to get under the truck, unscrew a plug or your sensor, get a plug from the auto parts store with matching threads, drill and tap a hole in it, put a fitting in it for the gauge hose, then screw it back in to place with a hose attached. My problem is I am too damn cheap, so I just made one.

Here is a photo of the early (99-02) timing cover with plugs available. You can get under the truck to see how hard it is to get to. You can use the plug above the sensor or the sensor plug, either works.

 

Replace the wire for that plug. Replace the plug. Even it it looks fine.
Check that the injector wire and plug are not cracked.

If you can get the injector wire off - make sure it is all clean and good.

Lastly - look up Erik Borrows post.
He had a post about a sticking valve

http://www.erikburrows.com/index.php...ver+Valve+Jobs

But his stte is down.

My old blog is still running:

http://jeffreyfall.com/landrover

 

Ok. So I finally had time to pull it apart. This is what I found. But how does this happen. Not just loose, this is how that bolt was when I pulled the cover off.

1) Is that semi-normal? 2) It is #5 so am I correct that this should be the cause of the misfire code and all the noise? Or is there an underlying issue I need to look into?

Anything else I should do other than just re-torque all of them? (Besides clean it up while its open)

What about gaskets? Any parts store intake and valve cover gaskets worth using?

 

Well I'd look around for any broken stuff, knicks etc, take the bolt out, make sure the threads are ok, then run it in, put it back together and drive it.

 

Pulled it out. Looks Fine. Thread lock of any sort on these bolts?

 

Nope. I never have...

 

One thing I would do before I put that back together...

You said you had low miles, pull the shafts and look for the little oil holes, make sure they are open and not gummed shut. Lisa Bunch has a thread here about it. I opened my rocker shafts up by cleaning them and my tick disappeared.

 

how many miles on the truck?

 

71k ish.

 

Also...if you look at your valve cover gaskets, theres a little steel circle where the bolt goes through. Make sure you have those before you put it back together.