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Remember when you could change the air filter in your car/truck in under a minute? Now you have to remove a dozen plastic pieces just to get to the intake box. And good luck finding your spark plugs if you have more than 4 cylinders. How I miss the days when you could actually sit inside the engine compartment and work and any piece of the engine you wanted.
I have tore engines down and did a rebuild. Now I am afraid to even change the spark plugs. Congrats to mechanics. You earn every dime you make.
Ive still got my 1970 454 cid Corvette and its so nice to be able to see about 7/8ths of the entire Engine with NO pollution control devices/hoses at all.
A person can also install a eletronic ignition from a mid to late 70's engine like a duraspark 2 for Fords, recurved for better performance of course, and there is also Petronix. These electronic setups need very little attention so it would be a good upgrade for a car that gets driven regularly.
Remember when you could change the air filter in your car/truck in under a minute? Now you have to remove a dozen plastic pieces just to get to the intake box. And good luck finding your spark plugs if you have more than 4 cylinders. How I miss the days when you could actually sit inside the engine compartment and work and any piece of the engine you wanted.
I have tore engines down and did a rebuild. Now I am afraid to even change the spark plugs. Congrats to mechanics. You earn every dime you make.
I feel for you folks with sideways engines and all that plastic armor.
I worked on a coworker's v6 Chevy Celebrity at the dock one time during my offshore working days...I made him pull the other two rear spark plugs. Retard thought he had a 4 cylinder, to boot!
My 2003 F150 v6 was iffy with those plug wires running behind the engine, but I'll take a coil pack over my parents 350 (1998) or 454 (2000) and that dizzy behind the engine anyday!
You are a moron if you think your plugs, coolant, etc will last 100K miles. Yet another scam the car companies came up with.
So the fact that my Jaguar S-type's platinum plugs lasted to 100K+ with the same engine performance as new was a freak occurence?
My Jag at 100K never missed, and had the exact same fuel economy as when I bought it. The dealer even said I could go longer without changing the plugs if I wanted.
Coolant may be a different story. But I know that plugs can last 100K.
^^Yeah, my Explorer has 115k miles on the original spark plugs and wires. I don't notice any missing or hesitation whatsoever, but I probably will change them this fall for the heck of it.
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