spark plug change

I changed mine on an 02 OB and didn't find it too difficult. I did have to remove the coolant overflow tank and the air intake tubing. After that it was pretty easy with a universal and a couple of extensions. Much easier than some of my old GM V6s where you had to remove the "dogbone" and rock the engine forward to get to the rear bank.

Overall, it took about an hour.

-Kurt

frank wrote:

Four plugs, one hour, not too difficult? Man, you have way more patience than me. I get antzy if four plugs take more than ten minutes. :-)

-John O

I'd read up on doing the WRX plugs (scoobymods.com, nasioc.com), and found it easier than I'd expected...not that difficult after removing the suggested parts, and accepting the fact that *you can't see* the plug, till you've got it out!

I've never changed the plugs in my GT, 7 years and 200,000km later they still seem to be going pretty well.

Dave

I did it, and with me being not a car guy. I did have a seasoned shadetree mechanic looking over my shoulder, and he handed me the tools but I did the job. Although the plugs appear to be difficult to get to, in reality they are not. The stuff that's in the way is easily removed and he had some unique tools anyway, so in my case I only had to move the washer bottle and about an inch at that. Wires are the easiest ever, since there's no way to mix up the order, at least on the EJ22 and EJ25. One wire is longer than the others on the EJ22 at least, but I forget which one.

-Matt

If you didn't purge all the air from the cooling system as part of replacing the coolant, you can expect a problem down the line. Trapped air can lead to local overheating and failure of the headgasket.

On my 00 obw, took less than an hour and all I had to remove to make things easier was the windshield washer tank. recently replaced the plug wires and that took less than 30 mins.

Mickey