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Old 05-28-2016 | 03:49 PM
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You are welcome! Be gentle, don't get over zealous with the big long bar to break the plugs loose!
Alittle turn to loosen then a smaller turn to tighten, kinda like you would use a tap to thread a bolt hole. I use my shop vac to clean any loose debris from the plug area in the head to avoid it dropping down into the combustion chamber.
Old 05-29-2016 | 04:51 PM
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Well. Mission accomplished!!!! the plugs put up a fight to come out but each one came out cleanly. I think they were the original plugs after 180K Miles!!! I encourage everyone who comes across this thread to just go ahead and do it using the advice provided. The plugs read AC Delco 12599232, which I briefly tried to research and could only find that they have been discontinued and replaced by the AC Delco 41-103.
Old 05-29-2016 | 05:42 PM
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They are the superseded number , glad all went well!
Old 05-29-2016 | 06:42 PM
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Honestly I did get a little scared because with all four none of them gave loose with that initial tug. And when they finally broke loose the felt like the BROKE loose. I read so much about spark plug jobs before doing it but now I'm convinced that you would really have to be somewhat stupid or a gorilla to mess the job up. Seems like it would be difficult to genuinely mess up like cross thread or break the plug or something like that
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