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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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Open the hood, we have to pull the release inside the car. It's just inside, right around your left knee on the driver's side. You need to release the secondary or safety release. Just feel around for it. This one is right here, squeeze up. Going to remove these two top nuts that hold on the appearance cover. They are 10 millimeter, so I'm using a 10 millimeter socket, ratchet and extension. They should just thread off real easily. Here's our appearance cover. It's got some foam inside that's just for noise. Just keeps the noise down from the valve train.
Here are your four coil packs. One for each cylinder. They're held into the valve cover with a 10 millimeter bolt. One for each. Underneath these is your spark plugs. Once these are removed, you can change your spark plugs and then reinstall the coil pack. Push down on the lock and remove the connector. These can be brittle. Sometimes they break, the lock does. This procedure will be the same for the other three. Use a ratchet, extension, and 10 millimeter socket to remove this 10 millimeter bolt. Put this bolt aside.
Now, I need to move the coil. May have to wiggle it because there is a seal in here and just break it free. As it's free, it should come right up. There's our coil pack. Use this special spark plug socket. It's got a rubber O-ring in there to hold the spark plug as we move it from the engine. This is one is a 5/8. Put on our extension, longer ratchet. Feed it down in there, you'll feel it sit onto spark plug. Break it free. Should take the ratchet off once it gets loose, just spin it out. You actually see this spark plug is covered with oil because our valve cover gasket has been leaking. Going to replace this spark plug after I clean up the spark plug openings, and then we'll replace the valve cover gasket.
This original spark plug. See it is all worn out. The brand new one we have from 1aauto.com is nice and fresh. The gap is small. Once we put all four of these in the vehicle, the car will be tuned up and it'll run great. I'm just going to take a rag and just carefully down here. Soak up as much as the oil as I can. I'm not going to worry about it too, too much. Any oil that make it into the cylinder will just get burned up anyways, but I do want to dry it up as much as I can before putting in the new spark plug.
Took our new spark plug, it's no need to gap this. It's pre-gapped. Put it into the socket. See it's held in with that rubber piece, so you can put it in without it falling out and take it by hand. You find the threads, put in it in by hand first, make sure it doesn't cross thread. That's just starting to touch the gasket. Take a torque wrench, set to 14 foot-pounds and tighten this down. All you're doing is crushing the crush gasket, so right there the spark plug is torqued in place. Sometimes that happens, the socket will stay on the plug, and you just kind of wiggle it a little bit.
Spark plug sockets have quite a grip to them. Sometimes if you don't have an extension that fits perfect into the socket, it can get stuck, so you just wiggle it around and break it free. It'll come right out. Just repeat these steps for the other three spark plugs and coils. Reinstall the coil, we'll line up the opening with the mounting hole. Move the harness out of the way, so I won't get pinched. We'll push right over the spark plug, reinstall the bolt. Once it gets tight, I'm just going to stop. Put the connector back in.
Now, we're going to reinstall the plastic engine cover. Wiped it down with a rag to clean some of the dirt off of it, make it look a little nicer. Get it lined up over those studs. It'll sit right down, reinstall the nuts. Actually, just do these hand tight. They don't need to be super tight. Job is complete.
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