You might want to get the dammit hose, too, while you're there. Then you can know you're not going in there again for a good long time.

 

Does it resemble my sig pic? Love my hat,

 

Washed it then put on the rain x stuff and put 30 bucks in the tank only got me 10.173 gallons.

 

Replaced that a couple weeks ago, when I did the intake swap.

 

I did plugs. uggh! But it feels good.






Mine were still original with 85k on her (04 QC 5.7 4x4). I got her with 80k about 2 1/2 months ago and just this week noticed hesitation one day and she died one time at a stop light the next day. No more delay, time do the plugs. I read alot and was prepared. Took a while, but I got 'er done and she runs great now. I used NGK 5306, gapped at .045 like on the sticker on the underside of the hood, with anti-sieze and dielectric grease. I started on the drivers side front to back then passenger side, front to back, one at a time. I labeled them as they came out so I could analyze. I may post picks. They weren't too bad considering how long they were in there. I would be ok with changing them at 50-60k instead of 30k. I am getting old and it was a little rough on my body cause I am feeling it this morning :-)

 

Can't feel as bad as I did when I just finished changing the plugs on my wife's van. v-6 in a pontiac montana. I knew I was in for trouble when the first step was unhooking the engine mounts to allow the motor to rotate forward to have clearance to the rear plugs. It took 4 hours to change 6 plugs and wires. Actually it was probably half an hour for the front three plugs, and 3 1/2 hours for the 3 rear plugs.

 

I can relate! I did my 100,000 mile tune-up about a month ago and came away bruised and sore. I'd considered trying to get my eldest grandson to crawl up there to swap the distributor cap and rotor, but he skedaddled when he realized what I was up to.

I highly recommend getting a tire step to make working on the engine easier. Using mine, the plugs were easy to reach -- it was only the distributor that caused misery.

 

I took a page out of another posters book here.... took off the air cleaner, slapped a piece of plywood down, and laid on that. It was actually comfortable.....

 

I'd considered doing that and talked myself out of it. I won't be making that mistake again!

 

I put an Arraid intake filter and dash mate and a set of tough mates.