Changing Plug Wires

[Eagle]

Yikes!!!!!! I purchased new plug wires and expecting a 10 minute job, went to change the old ones out. Hold it. Not that simple. By opening up the hood, I could not even see where the old plug wires went. They go somewhere toward the middle/front of the engine. It looks like I may have to get underneath this thing just get to the plug wire destination. Can that be true?

Dick
95 Corvette

 

[LT4man]

No, you don't have to go underneath the vehicle.

1/2 hour for passenger side.

2 hours for driver's side.

Buy a six-pack and be very patient.

If you do a search on this forum, you will find threads where folks explained how to do it.

There are things to take apart. Not hard, but time consuming.

I am leaving my house right now, so I can't be of more help.

SAVE THE

 

[skybolt31]

I just did this job, however I had was replacing the waterpump and did the opti also. I would say to take pictures and make notes of the routing of the wires before you take anything apart. On the passenger side you can do one wire at a time, not so on the driver side. There is one place where the wires go between the ps pump and a bracket and the wires need to go through there one wire at a time. I had to loosen the bolts on the pump and move it forward a bit to fit the wires through there. I also had the pulley off of the ps pump which gives a lot more room to work. I bought GM replacement wires and was a little disappointed in that they were not labeled like the originals and the lengths did not match as close as I would have liked. Before installing the wires, if they are not labeled, I would take a sharpie and label them in many places. When you are handling some of the places you have written the number will wear off, so the more places the better.

 

[Eagle]

Thanks for the tips. Evidently, this is more involved than I thought and will wait for a bit warmer weather to tackle the job. Sounds like good labeling would be a good thing to do.

 

[jrzvette]

Yikes!!!!!! I purchased new plug wires and expecting a 10 minute job, went to change the old ones out. Hold it. Not that simple. By opening up the hood, I could not even see where the old plug wires went. They go somewhere toward the middle/front of the engine. Dick
95 Corvette

They do towards the middle/front of the engine; that's where the distributor (optispark) is located, right under and behind the water pump on the timing chain cover.

 

[andrewc4]

I did the right rear two plugs when I replaced the fuel filter and the driver's side rear two plugs when I replaced the brake vacuum booster.

The front plugs on both sides were, by contrast, much easier to get to.