New Spark Plugs

[enoZlavir Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close enoZlavir]

I am looking to replace the spark plugs and cabling and was wondering what kind of plugs I should get? I have a 5vzfe which I occasionally run on gas.

Any help much appreciated!

[Bush Turkey Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bush Turkey]

I am looking to replace the spark plugs and cabling and was wondering what kind of plugs I should get? I have a 5vzfe which I occasionally run on gas.

Any help much appreciated!

Too late to help but 1 colder for LPG I believe.
What a shit of a job, I'm doing it now.
Cant believe you just hope the plug electrical connector goes onto end of spark plug. Anyone got any tips on this?

[CoreyTroy Member Find all posts View Profile Close CoreyTroy]

Too late to help but 1 colder for LPG I believe.
What a shit of a job, I'm doing it now.
Cant believe you just hope the plug electrical connector goes onto end of spark plug. Anyone got any tips on this?

I did mine a few months back, and had no issues.
If you push slowly from the top of the lead cap, you feel a slight click.

Only trouble i had was i unravelled the leads to 5 and 6, and somehow switched them to have a rough idle and splutter under load.
When i figured out what i did and swapped them back around, all good.

MUST use twin electrode plugs according to the manual.

[Brett1979 Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Brett1979]

You can just get cheapies a if you don't want to spend $150 on a set of iridium ones. Standard plugs & leads don't need to be changed out every 40,000km like the service manual says either. They do last much longer than that. You're very safe if you just keep the old ignition leads and plugs in until you do get an actual ignition hick-up which would take years and years and years anyway. I just hate it how on many engines, even 4 cylinders that can be a bit of a pain with what needs to be removed to get to them all. $5 or $6ea Bosch plugs are just fine. They don't break the bank and will keep for many years before one of them will play up a bit, in which case you'd then replace all 6. Base range NGK's are worth a bit more and are very good. But what I'm trying to say is there's no need whatsoever to be anal with replacing these items as per the service schedule of 40,000km or 2 years.
Unlike a Diesel engine, petrol engines can put up with much more and are far less sensitive with the service schedule of things like this, not that diesels have spark plugs but you know what I mean.

[Bush Turkey Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bush Turkey]

You can just get cheapies a if you don't want to spend $150 on a set of iridium ones. Standard plugs & leads don't need to be changed out every 40,000km like the service manual says either. They do last much longer than that. You're very safe if you just keep the old ignition leads and plugs in until you do get an actual ignition hick-up which would take years and years and years anyway. I just hate it how on many engines, even 4 cylinders that can be a bit of a pain with what needs to be removed to get to them all. $5 or $6ea Bosch plugs are just fine. They don't break the bank and will keep for many years before one of them will play up a bit, in which case you'd then replace all 6. Base range NGK's are worth a bit more and are very good. But what I'm trying to say is there's no need whatsoever to be anal with replacing these items as per the service schedule of 40,000km or 2 years.
Unlike a Diesel engine, petrol engines can put up with much more and are far less sensitive with the service schedule of things like this, not that diesels have spark plugs but you know what I mean.

It's on LPG so I wanted one range colder plugs. It's also second hand so I didn't know we're it's at. Too annoying a job just to look. Old plugs had massive gaps compared to double iridium bosh ones I got. There was no stock at my local so they were my only choice. Hear what your saying though. I think I'll get my $100 back in fuel savings hopefully.

[RobboMC Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RobboMC]

Too late to help but 1 colder for LPG I believe.
What a shit of a job, I'm doing it now.
Cant believe you just hope the plug electrical connector goes onto end of spark plug. Anyone got any tips on this?

I don;t have any tips on the electrical connector, but to get the plugs out and in,
after many, many attempts at getting the 'right' combination of tools, I borrowed a socket extension and 2nd flex drive from my neighbour.

So use TWO 4" extensions and TWO flex drive couplings. This allows movement around all the damn cabling and stuff in the engine bay
and makes the spark plug job almost enjoyable.

[Brett1979 Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Brett1979]

Wow, were you able to remove the driver's side spark plugs without removing anything else. Good work!

[hawks667 Member Find all posts View Profile Close hawks667]

I actually changed mine yesterday...Put new Leads & Coil Packs in it to replace the originals which had 330k on them. Still working fine, just decided to replace them...

Drivers side is easy if you remove the air intake...

Passengers side, the cylinder closest to the firewall owes me a fair bit if skin from my knuckles...that's a biatch to get out in mine with the aux battery, relocated carbon canister and what not...

[oceanracer Moderated member Find all posts View Profile Close oceanracer]

Im reading with interest, has it made any running difference, did you use genuine parts and what plugs did you use , as per manual or something else
Thanks

I actually changed mine yesterday...Put new Leads & Coil Packs in it to replace the originals which had 330k on them. Still working fine, just decided to replace them...

Drivers side is easy if you remove the air intake...

Passengers side, the cylinder closest to the firewall owes me a fair bit if skin from my knuckles...that's a biatch to get out in mine with the aux battery, relocated carbon canister and what not...

[hawks667 Member Find all posts View Profile Close hawks667]

Used NGK Coil Packs, NGK Leads & NGK BKR5EKB-11 Plugs....

Made a big difference....I had a plug come loose the other week so it wasnt firing on all 6 cylinders for a few days...Tightened it up, but i reckon the leaking stuffed the plug and lead..hence i decided to change everything over..

[RobboMC Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RobboMC]

Wow, were you able to remove the driver's side spark plugs without removing anything else. Good work!

Can't say I remember, it's been a year since I did it. At the 160K plug change I struggled for an hour and tore skin off knuckles.
At the 200K change I ripped through it in no time with the double extensions. I imagine I did remove the airbox, it's really the only sane way to do it.

From my experience with other cars if something is in the way it's usually faster to remove it than work around it.