floridatreasure9

Hello, I am trying to learn how to do things myself to my car...This may be a stupid question to most people...but I want to change my spark plugs and I don't know where they are or what to do. When everyone stops laughing (smile) I Truly want to learn how to do these things and there is no one I can ask... I bought the plugs,wrench,extension, ect....everything they said I needed...if you could give me step by step instructions I Truly would appericate it...and Thank You, Thank You, Thank You...

hondabum

ha ha ha ha ha ahahahhahahahhahahahaahahahhahahahahahahah!!!!! go get a book HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH i dont mean to be rude by laughing its just funny, but its cool you have to start some where, but you will use your book a lot and it'll have torque specs and all the know how to do most every thing , just rember dont reef on them you can over do it .good luck, and you already 10 times beter off than a lot of other people, your willing to learn and that is all you need.

floridatreasure9

That hurt... I have read other questions on here and people was nice to them...I was hoping to learn how to do a few things myself...I live a long way from a town, but if you could tell me which book to buy that will explain things in terms that someone new at this stuff can understand I will gladly buy it. Everyone has to start out at the beginning...but thank you for your suggestion...Michelle

hondabum

dude i am sorry dont take it personal its just funny that you dont even know where they are. look for the fat wires going into the top of your engine they leed to your spark plugs, pull the round looking rubber thing up and look down the hole presto there is your spark plugs not a very good description but i dont know how to in simple terms they might have a better one in the top of the accord forum. sorry if i sounded like a jackass i just thought it was funny oh and just go to the auto store and they should have a book on your year. good luck, you will laugh too after you figure it out .


Modified by hondabum4life at 12:17 PM 10/2/2005

efficiencyJunkie

Michelle,

the basics can be found in a chiltons book for your specific car. They are around 15 bucks. You can just go to a car shop, and get a spark plug wrench. Then buy the spark plugs from the shop, and make sure they are gapped. (or ask them to show you how to do it.) Also pic up a grease called "anti-seize " which will be used on the threads of the spark plugs. Car part stores usually have nice guys working there, which can help you if you just ask!

put the anti-seize on the threads, and next pull of the spark plug wire caps. then its just screwing on/off. now just hand tighten it and you are done!

White V6

go get you a Haynes manual and read read read and then after that read some more

hondabum

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by White V6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">go get you a Haynes manual and read read read and then after that read some more</TD></TR></TABLE>yeah get a haynes if you can

floridatreasure9

Hello and Thank You for your response, I went to AutoZone and bought the wrench,extension,plugs and the anti-freeze..I told them this was the first time I have done anything to a car...they were very nice, they didn't mention a book...I did pull a wire up ... but when I pulled the wire part out of the engine I didn't see a spark plug, there is a long tube looking thing on the end of the wire, I put the thing back in the engine. I was so excited when I bought the tools and stuff to get started, but when I didn't see the spark plug I felt lost......I know this sounds funny to all of you, and it would to me about things that I know about....But I Really do want to learn how to do these things... and I Thank You all for any help...Michelle

hondabum

trust me its down there just get a light and you will see it. make sure that when you put it back you push it till you can feel it pop back on. go back to the auto place and i bet they will have the perfect book for you. <TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by White V6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">go get you a Haynes manual and read read read and then after that read some more</TD></TR></TABLE>
yeeeesssssss read read read and read some more make sure you read before attempting anything

BLKFLSH

Just get your book first, then when you want to do something or want to know where something is, you can just look it up. If you can understand and follow directions you can do a lot of the maintenance and repair on your car yourself. I had a 92ex for twelve years, and learned a lot from the manual and most importantly saved some money on repairs and maintenance. I had purchased the Helms manual (the one honda machanics use). If you read up on something, and still have questions some of the guys on here know what their talking about, and will help you out. Good luck. Oh, I almost forgot, it's anti-seize