ym42

So the dreaded time came to swap the plugs! All in all, it was not nearly as bad as I expected after 100+k miles...
Things I needed - 7mm socket for the coils, and I think 15mm deep well socket with two extentions. Went to AutoZone to borrow a torque-wrench, the bigger kind ( something like 25-150 ). Since I don't have any compressed air, got a can of stuff used to clean a computer keyboard, which worked fine. Its better to blow the sand and dust off BEFORE you take the coils off and it falls into the well. Once its inside its harder to get read of it but if you have a real compressor its no problem at all. I poured some PB Blaster into each well, and started to remove the plugs, almost no wait, the engine was very warm... I drove about 30 miles and then let it sit for about an hour while I got ready for the job. With the wrench on 32lb setting I broke free every plug, which was not that hard, except for one that needed a bit more time, and the rest was pretty easy, though I did follow some recommendation from this forum to work the plug in both direction bit by bit, it really helped and PB blaster was the king! I kind of felt it softening the threads as I went, seriously! All the work took me about 2 hours, but I was working at night, it was already dark and I had to take off the strut tower brace as well. The plugs I used were the Champions one piece design and I was regrettably too lazy to put any anti-seize stuff on it... Judging by the factory plugs it should not be a big deal.

808muscle

Excellent job. Some folks arnt as lucky.

ym42

By the way the plugs were mostly looking brand new. Except for the gap which was very large, and a carbon ring where the inner cylinder meets the larger diameter cylinder where the threads are... The threads were looking brand new...

allinon72

Wow I would consider yourself very lucky!