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...before I tear a muscle in the back of my legs, will someone please tell me the trick to simply getting the back spark plug wires off?!
This sh*t truly sucks!
It's for the f*cking birds!
#6 came off easy enough but #2 & #4 must be stuck on with Gorilla Glue!!!
Save me!!!!
These wires are making me look like a total newbee!
 


get some work gloves on, then grip twist and rip. the gloves help protect your hands from when they fly into the firewall or the likes.

if it comes to it razor blade to the boot works too.
 
Gloves plus twist, yep. Since my hand injury, I have to use a small pry bar as well. For me they usually take every ounce of strength plus dipping into the rage pool for more savage yanking and yelling. Best help I found is to take a few minutes and set up a way to climb up over the engine. Meaning pad the alternator area for one knee and find a spot for the other. Gotta have your shoulders over it. When I say use pry bar I mean against the face of the boot that faces the cylinder head.
 
i must say with headers installed and all them pull brackets removed, it takes nothing, i dont even pull the engine forward no more.
 
What a ***** that was!
One more check mark for the love/hate relationship with this car!
Didn't have to pull the engine forward, just needed brute strength for #2 & #4 wires. Plugs were easy compared to just taking off those plug wires!
Took alot of breaks & took a rag to any dirt I found on the engine.
On to an easier project...Cleaning the dirt in between the tiny words on the tires!!!
 
What a ***** that was!
One more check mark for the love/hate relationship with this car!
Didn't have to pull the engine forward, just needed brute strength for #2 & #4 wires. Plugs were easy compared to just taking off those plug wires!
Took alot of breaks & took a rag to any dirt I found on the engine.
On to an easier project...Cleaning the dirt in between the tiny words on the tires!!!
 


Use dialectric grease when putting them back... Helps a bit! And don't wait so long to swap plugs lol, but sometimes I've had them like glued in and just changed them, so who knows... But the grease does help.
 
I considered buying some plug wire pullers, searched for them at O'Reilly's, AutoZone & Advance.
Nobody had them.
Too late for the dialectric grease...Those things can stay on there for another 107,000 miles for all I care!
Sad part on that whole ordeal...All of the old plugs looked to be in good shape for 107,000 miles.
 
I ordered mine off summit racing when I bought the spark plugs and wires. I doubt anyone local would have had them.
 
I didn't have any boot tool thing the first time. Used a long handled needle nose with either a ratchet or extension (can't remember) to lever on near the back of the motor. Was easier from passenger side.
 


I should have been spending the last year touching my toes before attempting to lean over & pull those wires!
My legs are killing me 24 hours later!!!
 
if that hurt you a rocker and spring swap would land you in the ER, header install, almost as bad. lim job also can get to you.

why i run my car up on car ramps for just about anything thats gonna take longer then 15 minutes, nice to get the bumper up past my knees lol
 
No time for hospitals or the ER for me...
Been there twice, once I broke my face and the other time was when I was born!
I'll stick to changing light bulbs and work where I can sit or lay down!
 
I think what people are trying to say is that there's an easy way, or hard way to do things!

I like the path of least resistance!

Ramps take 20 seconds to set up and eliminate a lot of the hamstring stretch, and the rear plugs aren't bad once you've had them out, my point was if using copper, as it's best, change them often and it's never a difficult thing. Plugs may have "looked" good, but at 107k there's no way they were.

Anyways, Good luck, lol
 


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