Spark plugs boots will not budge - grrr....!

**SlowNA06** · 12-14-2011

Originally Posted by Elite6

OK so got them all off... No ratcheting engine forward, plugs are OEM 144K miles, all wires broke off boots in rear.

The following instructions are pure gold & will provide results if conventional methods don't work:

1. Fire up & consume a medium rare to rare steak (t bone of course) and a minimum of 12oz
2. Take down 2 beers at a brisk pace & follow with one red bull (30 min max)
3. Wait an additional 5-10 mins for personal supercharging effect (beers & bull)
4. Throw yourself on he motor (dress pants and all)
5. Remove big bracket at rear
6. Take the hand that best fits, combine that with supercharging effect and imagine your hand is the same one in the Foo Fighters music video "Everlong" - sweet vid please watch
7. Let out savage native indian scalping cry
8. Grab boot & treat it like your worst enemy
9. Boot will yield
10. Explain to wife & kids the screaming in the garage
11. Go watch the game

Dear god in heaven

**BillBoost37** · 12-14-2011

I remember a picture of 95NASTA kneeling barefoot on his motor to do a plug change or something like that. Funny as heck.

**chumley** · 02-17-2012

All humor aside, I spent the better part of 5 hours today replacing all plugs and wires except #'s 4 and 6 in the rear. I pulled the engine forward to the 2nd hole in the mount( this was the easiest part of the operation, and I'm not musclebound) After that I still did not have enough room to get good leverage on the wire boots to pull them off. I could twist them fairly well, but there is not enough room to pull them off. My car is a 2001 GT, 3.8L . I assume the engines and room in the engine bay are pretty similar to other years. Those of you who claim to change all your plugs in 10 minutes, well......Interested in buying a used bridge? After my hands heal and I get some relief help for tugging on those boots, I'll give it another shot. Give me any pre-80's car and I will do fine working on them. I've been a backyard mechanic for nearly 40 years, and I'm convinced of the back-scratching relationship between car design engineers and the auto service and repair industry. Either that or they were just idiots when designing things. Godspeed to all who venture on this painful but neccessary maintenance task on their vehicles.

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