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Hi. I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20 plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1aauto.com. The right parts installed correctly. That's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video, we'll be showing you how to replace the spark plugs and plug wires on this Honda Accord V6. Process is similar for most Honda V6s. Tools you'll need are a five eighth inch spark plug socket, an extension and ratchet and maybe an extendable magnet.
Replacing spark plugs and wires on these Honda V6s is actually a pretty easy job but it's also kind of easy to mess up. Many times I've heard people say, "I took all the wires and plugs out and then I put it all back together but now my car doesn't run right." That's because you have to put everything back together correctly. The key is just do them one at a time. Take one wire off and one plug off, put the plug back in and put the wire back on. Very easy to work on like I said; all these six plugs are accessible.
On the rear, you can easily see, they're all very easy to get to. What you want to do is you pull the plug out over to here and then you give it a good twist. While you're twisting, pull it up and out. That's your plug wire. You'll need a five eights spark plug socket and an extension and put it right down in there and then just take the plug out. Once it gets easy to turn, it's usually a pretty good sign that your plug is all the way out and if you have a good socket you should be able to pull it up and out. My socket is a little worn out so my plug stayed down in there.
So a good tool to have around is a little extendable magnet which goes right down in and pulls the plug out. Actually, you can see somebody that did this before. It looks like they put a little bit of a paper towel around it to hold it into their socket probably. So you got the plug out and if you're replacing the wires at the same time or if separately. Now, you want to just take the whole wire off and, again, here at the distributor, twist and pull and then the wires on this car are actually fairly new so I'm not going to replace them, but you would not put your new wire on right in place because you have to make sure that you put each wire back on the same spot on the distributor. That's why you don't want to just take them all off and then try and put them back on, you just do them one at a time. Always route the back the way they were originally.
Before your installing your plugs, you want to check the gap and according to the sticker that's on the hood, right there, it tells you what kind of plugs to have and it also tells you what the gap is supposed to be. I'm sure you can't read it, maybe you can, but it says the gap is 1.1 millimeters which translates into .044 inches. I have a little gap tool and .044 just barely gets through there. That's set correctly. You might have noticed I've skipped through a different hole, but a good way to put these plugs back in is actually with a little bit of glue. Just put a little glue on there because my socket is worn and it won't hold on to the spark plug. A little bit of glue makes it so the spark plug sticks in there. You get it down in, start turning.
You always want to make sure you could turn it by hand first because if it's difficult to turn at all then you might be cross-threading is and you don't want to do that. Okay, tighten it. You want them snugged but not too tight. Put the spark plug wire down in there, make sure it clicks. Make sure you put the wire back into its correct spot.
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Okay friends, one of the first things we need to do is get under the hood. Once you're under the hood, just make sure it's not super hot because we don't want to deal with a hot engine. Go ahead and remove this cover right here by removing your 2 10-millimeter headed nuts. Okay, there should be one right here, ours is missing. Go ahead and carefully lift that up and set it aside.
Awesome. Now that the cover is off we have a clear view of our ignition coil harness right here. We need to go ahead and squeeze on this tab right here and try to draw it off. If you can't squeeze hard enough, go ahead and use a pocket screwdriver, come right underneath this ear, carefully lift it, and then draw this away. Every time I remove an electrical connector, I always look to see if there's any funny colors, if there is it's probably corrosion and that's going to cause restriction. This looks good. Let's set it aside.
The next thing we're gonna do is remove our 10-millimeter head bolt right here. Set that aside as well. Go ahead and grab onto the coil, twist, and lift. Underneath where that coil was is where you gonna find your spark plug. You gonna need a 5/8 socket that looks like this and you want to make sure that it's a spark plug socket, the spark plug socket's going to have a little rubber gasket in there and it's gonna hold the spark plug. Go ahead and put it right down in there, turn it counterclockwise and remove the spark plug. There it is, friends.
Now that we have the spark plug out, I always like to take a peek right along the electrode area just to make sure there isn't any buildup. If there's buildup that could indicate that there's an issue going on inside the engine. This one actually looks pretty good. Now it's gonna be time to install our brand new spark plug. Go ahead and put it into your spark plug socket. Make sure it doesn't fall out. The last thing you want is for it to fall out and potentially damage the electrode area. Go ahead and carefully put it down in here. And you always want to start this in by hand. Go ahead and screw it all the way until the bottoms out. Now we gonna go ahead and make sure we torque this down. Has a crush gasket on it and you want to torque this to exactly 13-foot-pounds. To install the coil, I always like to put a little bit of dielectric grease right down inside this area here. It's going to keep the moisture away and of course along this area right there, also to keep the moisture away. Right in there. Along here. You don't need very much. Go ahead and set that down on there and press it down onto the spark plug. Let's put our bolt in there. I always want to start these in by hand of course. Now snug it up. Just bottom it out. Give it a teeny bit more. That's good. If you want to use a little bit of dielectric grease inside of your connector, we'll call it your prerogative. Aside from that, go ahead and press it on, listen for a click. Give it a nice tug, make sure it's secure. We would just do the same down the line. Now when you get down to this portion of this, you're probably gonna see that these black pieces in the way. There's a 10-millimeter bolt here and a 10-millimeter headed nut right there. We're gonna remove the pair of those and then you can lift this up and out of the way.
All right, now that we have everything nice and securely connected, we have this back on there as it should be, let's go ahead and put this cover back on. Line up the holes with the studs coming off your engine. Put on your nut, and then of course snug it up. Do the same to the other one if you have one. Okay, friends, the next thing that we need to do is carefully start up the vehicle. We're gonna come right back out here and we're gonna watch the engine. Make sure it's not shaking around. If it's shaking around, you have a misfire, there's a possibility that maybe you didn't plug something in. Aside from that, shut the hood, hop back in the vehicle, make sure there's no check engine light, and take it for a road test.
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