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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet. Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out. Next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks. In this video, we're going to show you how to change spark plugs on this Chevy Colorado. This has the 3.5 Liter 5-cylinder, which is the same as the 4-cylinder, a pretty easy procedure. You'll need 8 and 10 mm sockets for the racket extension. You'll also need a 5/8ths spark plug socket.
Okay, working from the passenger side, you'll want to remove two bolts and hold the top of the air box. One here and one right here. Now to remove this you want to remove this intake tube which is a clamp here and a clamp here. Remove that tube and then loosen both this one and this one to pull this apart. I'll speed this up a little bit. You can either use a flat-plate screwdriver or an 8 mm socket with a ratchet and extension to undo those clamps. This also- There's a small backing line here. Just twist and pull that off. This plate's up. There's also a line right back here. Just pull off the intake. This vehicle will be sitting for awhile so I'm just using a vacuum cleaner to clean up the vacated mounts house that's sitting on the intake. That will take a twist. I'm getting this collar off here. You can see here are our five coils. Any one of them, just remove the 10 mm bolt. Each of them had a little grey clip that you just pull on. You need a screwdriver to just push the little tab right in the center. Push the tab down and pull the clip right off. Then push the tab with your thumb. Press that then remove the lead. Remove this 10 mm bolt. Then once you have the bolt removed, just you can move it around.
Shake it up and down a little bit and then the coil comes up and out. Then the spark plug is right down in there. You want a 5/8th's spark plug socket designed to go in and grab hold of the socket. Put it down in with your extension. Spark plug comes right out. The plugs in this vehicle are in pretty good shape though because they were replaced pretty recently. Before you put your new plugs in, you want to check their gap. On this Colorado, it should be a .042. So, you take your .042 gap tool and just make sure it goes in there. It should have a little bit of resistance. It looks like it's open just a little too much. So I'm going to take it, close it up just a little bit, go back to the 042 and I can just carefully You don't want to use too much force because you can damage it, but just back and forth a little bit of resistance. There you go. This socket designed to hold the plug so you can lower it down in there. Make sure you start it by hand and be careful that the plug doesn't cross-thread into the head. It should go in quite a good distance just by hand. Then you want to tighten this up to about 25 to 30 foot pounds. Obviously, repeat the other cylinders.
New coil from 1A Auto exactly the same as the old one. Put it right down in. Go ahead and just push it straight in. Tighten up the 10 mm bolt. Plug your lead back in and then put the locking tab back in place. Repeat that for any cylinders you need. The cylinder order on these is usually just from front to back, one, two, three, four and five. If you get a code like number three cylinder misfiring, that's usually a bad coil, so you'd replace the number three coil. Put it back together. Put this on there. There's a little notch. It should stick up right there. I've got my two bolts already in there. Right here's that hose, push that hose down there first. Put this down in place. I'm just maneuvering it into this hose here. Push it into place. Twist this hose a little bit. It's a little bit off. Push it down over here. You should get it good and tight on there. Hook up this vacuum hose, 8 mm socket. Tighten up. Just inspect all our, where the hoses go, the housings, make sure they're nice and tight and then tighten up our clamps. Again, you're going to use either a flat-plate screwdriver or an 8 mm socket. Go back to our 10 mm socket and make sure these bolts bolt down in. Tighten them up. You're all set.
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Hi, I’m Mike from 1A Auto. We’ve been selling auto parts for over 30 years!
In this video, I'm going to show you how to replace spark plugs in this 2001 Ford Focus. First thing we're going to do is remove the spark plug boot that goes next to the wire to the plug. So you just grab this, pull up on this, and this is a sealed system. In here, the valve cover kind of seals, but there is still some dirt in there where the plug is, so I am going to use some compressed air and clean out the dirt, because we don't want any of that falling into the cylinder when we're doing this job.
I'm going to take my spark plug socket—it's a 5/8" spark plug socket. There's a little rubber grommet in there that actually holds the spark plug in, and I'll use an extension and a ratchet. We'll remove this one. Once you loosen it, you can generally do it by hand. I'll pull it out. There's a new plug.
You want to keep in mind that when you're looking at these plugs. You want to compare the lengths of them. So the fact that this plug has more threads doesn't really matter, because the base of the plug is right there at that lip. So that lip and that lip line up with the plug, which is good. The other thing you want to do, is generally the plugs come pre-gapped, but we're going to double check them.
Take a gapper here, and the plug gap on this is .05 inches, so that is right there. That's good. You can also, if you don't know where the gap is, check under the hood. Generally there's a tag, and it says where the spark plug gap is. This is 1.3mm, which ends up being .05 inches.
And we're going to install that plug into the socket, and see it won't fall. Slide it into the hole carefully. Start tightening it up, and we're going to snug it up with the ratchet. Once that's snug, I can torque it with the torque wrench.
We actually sell these torque wrenches at 1AAuto.com, and I'm going to torque these plugs to 11 foot-pounds and pull the socket out. You can reinstall the wire, just slide it on, push it down, and we'll move on to the next one. You'll do the same. Loosen this one up. One thing we forgot, just want to double check and see if there's any debris in there. I'll take my blow gun, and just blow it out. Get some of the dirt out of the way, pull the plug out, and install the new plug.
I already pre-gapped these. Snug this one down. It's snug so now we'll torque it to 11 foot-pounds and reinstall this number 2 wire. Go on to number 3, pull that one up, get the compressed air, blow it in there, take our plug socket and extension and our ratchet, and pull this one out.
Keep in mind you can look at the plug. This plug's actually got some oil in it, so this valve cover is leaking a little bit into the plug area. That maybe we may need to address that. Also, you can check the plug and see if there's any oil on the plug or any fuel.
If it's extremely white, then it's burning coolant. It's black, you'll be burning oil. Looks good right there. Install this plug. Snug that up and we'll torque it to 11 foot pounds. Looks good.
Install the number 3 wire, and then pull out number 4. There's a bunch of debris in there, so I'll blow that out. Try not to let any in or there will be extra stuff getting in your way.
I want to remove this number 4 spark plug, and as you can see there's still oil on this plug just like the other one. That's coming from the valve cover gasket.
Install the new plug, this one is gapped as well, snug this down, snug. Torque this one to 11 foot-pounds, that's good, and install spark plug wire number 4. You're good to go.
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