Just wanted to share my experience with a small, but troublesome problem.

While doing some minor tune up stuff, I was replacing my spark plugs. At the end of the wires there's this little boot thingy that likes to remain on the plug and not come out with the wire.

I've successfully handled this with a coat hanger in the past, but I found that this isn't the best way to deal with the problem. Using the coat hanger I managed to rip the plug wire boot.

So the next day (it was 10 pm) I made a trip to NAPA and bought a 12 dollar pair of long-*** needle nose pliers. Ahhh, much better now. It's so much easier to work on stuff when you have the right tool.

Ciao dudes.

 

I have a pair of "long-*** needle nose pliers". They work for so many things. It one of those tools that you don't know how you lived without.

 

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I just use a little bit of "vaseline" on the head of the plug and inside the boot. Slides off much easier that way.

Just my .02 $

 

I glued those little boots to the plasitc housing around the plug wire. No more problems with the boot coming off after that.

 

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I just use a little bit of "vaseline" on the head of the plug and inside the boot. Slides off much easier that way.

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I use Dielectric grease but same difference.

 

I use one of those grabber claw things for reaching down in there.

 

dude.. i've never had that problem.. whether it be with di-electric grease or not..

but anyway, what kind of wires? i use NGK blue's..

 

I think what he is actually talking about is the rubber boot inside the spark plug socket and it gets stuck on the spark plug when you tighten it and try and pull it out.

If hes talking about the actual boot that goes on the wires connection to the distributor then I say get some less crappy wires, my NGKs have those boots like hot glued in place or something.

 

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Yeah I've had that happen too, but that's an easier fix.

What I'm talking about is at the end of the spark plug wire there is typically a little insulator boot. Kind of looks like a tootsie roll. Depending on what kind of wires you use that boot can decide it likes to hang out on the spark plug rather then come out with the wire. If you haven't had this happen, consider yourself fortunate.

Because I was going to a track day the following morning, I had to buy some cheapos to replace the wires... they weren't cheap. I figured I could just tranfer a new boot from the crappy wires, but on the new wires the boots seemed like they were pretty well afixed, so the crappy new wires are on the car now.

Sheesh, that's confusing just to write, I hope you can follow that.

Are most of you guys using factory wires?