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Thank you! It is nice to get a "hat off" to my battle wounds.twinblown wrote:...Did you not remove the intake manifold to change the passenger side plugs? if you did not then hats off to you man! I studied it hard and thought it would be almost impossible to change the passenger side without removing the intake manifold and since the shop manual states the IM must must be removed in order to replace the passenger side I figured that is the best way. Anyways share some more details, did you take any pics of the manner in wich you managed to remove them? specially the front most coil, how does it slide out when the IM is in the way?
The manual thats on the forum doesn't say to remove it.BMXPath wrote:Thank you! It is nice to get a "hat off" to my battle wounds.twinblown wrote:...Did you not remove the intake manifold to change the passenger side plugs? if you did not then hats off to you man! I studied it hard and thought it would be almost impossible to change the passenger side without removing the intake manifold and since the shop manual states the IM must must be removed in order to replace the passenger side I figured that is the best way. Anyways share some more details, did you take any pics of the manner in wich you managed to remove them? specially the front most coil, how does it slide out when the IM is in the way?
I did not remove the manifold and I did get them all. I wondered what the service manual would say, but I didnt have a spare manifold gasket if I pulled off the intake.
Sorry, I didnt take any pics of how I did it. All I can say on the front coil is that removing the throttle body helped, and if the coil didnt seperate into two pieces, I would not have been able to get it out. I bet removing the manifold is much easier than my trial and error luck.
Yes it does, in order to remove the ignition coil (obiously if you are going to remove the spark plug)disallow wrote:The manual thats on the forum doesn't say to remove it.BMXPath wrote:Thank you! It is nice to get a "hat off" to my battle wounds.twinblown wrote:...Did you not remove the intake manifold to change the passenger side plugs? if you did not then hats off to you man! I studied it hard and thought it would be almost impossible to change the passenger side without removing the intake manifold and since the shop manual states the IM must must be removed in order to replace the passenger side I figured that is the best way. Anyways share some more details, did you take any pics of the manner in wich you managed to remove them? specially the front most coil, how does it slide out when the IM is in the way?
I did not remove the manifold and I did get them all. I wondered what the service manual would say, but I didnt have a spare manifold gasket if I pulled off the intake.
Sorry, I didnt take any pics of how I did it. All I can say on the front coil is that removing the throttle body helped, and if the coil didnt seperate into two pieces, I would not have been able to get it out. I bet removing the manifold is much easier than my trial and error luck.
How's that? twist and remove? A while back i had removed one of the coils on the driver side to look and the coil and long body seemed to be one piece. If it's a 2 piece that would explain how you were able to remove the passenger front most coil.BMXPath wrote:Thank you! It is nice to get a "hat off" to my battle wounds.twinblown wrote:...Did you not remove the intake manifold to change the passenger side plugs? if you did not then hats off to you man! I studied it hard and thought it would be almost impossible to change the passenger side without removing the intake manifold and since the shop manual states the IM must must be removed in order to replace the passenger side I figured that is the best way. Anyways share some more details, did you take any pics of the manner in wich you managed to remove them? specially the front most coil, how does it slide out when the IM is in the way?
I did not remove the manifold and I did get them all. I wondered what the service manual would say, but I didnt have a spare manifold gasket if I pulled off the intake.
and if the coil didnt seperate into two pieces
Yes, the coil is at least two pieces. There is the hard plastic part that goes onto the plug, and then a rubber sleeve that connects to the coil. Note: I dont know if the rubber seperates from the top part of the coil. I wasnt sure about taking it apart, but I did it and it worked to get out number 1.twinblown wrote: How's that? twist and remove? A while back i had removed one of the coils on the driver side to look and the coil and long body seemed to be one piece. If it's a 2 piece that would explain how you were able to remove the passenger front most coil.