Thread: This is my last GM product

It blows my mind that people have such a hard time changing the plugs on these cars. Shouldn't take longer than 45 minutes with a beer break. Spark plug wires are just like any other electrical connector, you pull on the connector...not the wires. And thank you for serving our country!

I never changed the spark plugs on my these cars yet, but it just looks like its going to be a pain.

There is so much plastic, brackets and emissions crap on vehicles anymore that it's a challenge in itself to find a v-6 or v-8 car that the spark plugs can be changed in less than an hour the first time you do it without any prior knowledge of doing so.

Once you get rid of the map bracket, evap and egr stuff it is much easier to do the back 3 plugs without having to rock the motor forward.

Try changing plugs on a 4th gen F-body. 6 of 8 go smooth as silk, then try to get the last two on the passenger side (1 of which is done under the f'ing car).

Otherwise, something that might make your life easier is you can remove the top two motor mounts. Take the bolts off that connect the "dog bones" to the engine itself and use a pry bar to pull the whole engine forward. Then you can use a ratchet-strap or something like that to hold it there. It doesn't make it super easy, but it does buy you a couple extra inches and takes you about 2 minutes to accomplish.

Welcome.

If ya ever need any help, give me a yell, I'm not far from you.

its not just GM all cars are getting crazy with technology and getting hard to work on, and a GM dealer charges $500 for spark plug changes??

Welcome Top, the good thing is, now that you have done it, it get's easier. Also use dielectric grease on the new boots and they will not stick or fry on the plugs as bad.

still need to change my plugs after i figure out which ones i should go with for my set up

If you think that's bad go and do plugs on a Triton. You are lucky if you get half of them out without breaking them off.

Welcome!

Any dealership charging more than an hour's work for the job should by no means be trusted. Once those bad boys see 70-100k mi, they're mated together pretty well. Gotta shake the daylights out of them - perfect practice for when you enter Thunderdome with that engineer.