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It's a doodle. The 3 on the front of the engine ( i.e. towards your seat ) and very simple. Just unplug the wires that go to the coils on the top and then the coil just pulls off. Just a plug socket to get the plug out.
The rear three require you to remove the plastic plenham housing. About 16 bolts as I recall, they are captive so they wont fall out when you lift the plenham off. Then just the same as the front ones.
The rear three require you to remove the plastic plenham housing. About 16 bolts as I recall, they are captive so they wont fall out when you lift the plenham off. Then just the same as the front ones.
No coils on a 2.5 mate 
Still easy bondy, can't remember if you need to pop the upper inlet manifold off, but even if you do it's still easy. Just be careful not to drop anything down the inlets!
Make sure you number the plugs....
Then unplug the leads and undo with a spark-plug socket on an extension
Still easy bondy, can't remember if you need to pop the upper inlet manifold off, but even if you do it's still easy. Just be careful not to drop anything down the inlets!
Make sure you number the plugs....
Then unplug the leads and undo with a spark-plug socket on an extension
obes said:
No coils on a 2.5 mate
Oh, as there not ? HT plug lead/coil, it's all the same really.When I took mine off to fiddle with the coils I was paranoid I'd dropped something down one of the inlets ( which, of cause, I'd not ). But, what do you do ? All you can do is a) take your engine out and strip it down to find out or b) start it up and hope nothing goes crash-bang. Thankfully b) happened !!
obes said:
No coils on a 2.5 mate
Still easy bondy, can't remember if you need to pop the upper inlet manifold off, but even if you do it's still easy. Just be careful not to drop anything down the inlets!
Make sure you number the plugs....
Then unplug the leads and undo with a spark-plug socket on an extension
Still easy bondy, can't remember if you need to pop the upper inlet manifold off, but even if you do it's still easy. Just be careful not to drop anything down the inlets!
Make sure you number the plugs....
Then unplug the leads and undo with a spark-plug socket on an extension
Cheers Owen
If I have to take off the upper inlet manifold does it require torquing back into position and I assume I don't need to disconnect the injector wiring?
Bondy
obes said:
yikes ! bet made you twitch !! turning the engine over by hand isn't easy in there is it !!
Yes ! I was convinced I'd dropped the socket, which I had, and that it might have gone down one of the inlets, which, looking at it, it could not possibly do. Still, I was somewhat relieved when I turned the key and it fired up without a big bang !
Bondy - what plug gap are you going for now you've had the remap? When I was having mine mapped (by Yellowshed to 340) the boost blew the spark out and they had to pop the plugs out and close the gap. I am not sure what they ended up with as they were discussing using 20,000 or 25,000.
humpy said:
Bondy - what plug gap are you going for now you've had the remap? When I was having mine mapped (by Yellowshed to 340) the boost blew the spark out and they had to pop the plugs out and close the gap. I am not sure what they ended up with as they were discussing using 20,000 or 25,000.
Thanks for that Paul as thats exactly what we think is happening. I'm going for 30thou 0.75. I will use a 0.75 gauge so it probbaly will be slightly bigger maybe 0.8.
As the car had a new ECU and when starting the setup the car runs very rich (it still is a bit at the mo but there is more work to do yet) So I also want to clean the plugs.
Bondy
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