Car has oil in intake tube. Looked down into intake manifold past throttle plate and saw it had a pool of oil in it. Any idea what would cause this?

1998 XJ8

 

Cleaned the part load breather lately?
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"part load breather"????

Is this where the tube is that runs from the valve cover to the snorkel tube?

 

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Here's a GREAT tutorial that was put together by a member of either this site, or another Jag Site.

Download the file "Clean Intake MAF and Part Load Breather.pdf"

You will need the Adobe Reader to view this file. Likely it's already installed on your computer, but if not:

 

Thanks guys, I will give that a shot. Figured it has to be coming in on one of the two ports on the valve covers.