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

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.