plug wires and dist cap replace
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RE: plug wires and dist cap replace
ORIGINAL: motorbrreath
just curious, what wires did you go with? i picked up autolites, they are new from what advance told me. they compliment the plugs nicely and they come pre greased. nice wires in my opinion
just curious, what wires did you go with? i picked up autolites, they are new from what advance told me. they compliment the plugs nicely and they come pre greased. nice wires in my opinion
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RE: plug wires and dist cap replace
ORIGINAL: Ram2K1
How you like 'em? I thought about getting those, but everyone said to go with at least 8mm, and they were 7.5mm. Don't really know WTF .5mm does for me, but I went with the 8mm Jegs Hotwires.
ORIGINAL: motorbrreath
just curious, what wires did you go with? i picked up autolites, they are new from what advance told me. they compliment the plugs nicely and they come pre greased. nice wires in my opinion
just curious, what wires did you go with? i picked up autolites, they are new from what advance told me. they compliment the plugs nicely and they come pre greased. nice wires in my opinion
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RE: plug wires and dist cap replace
I do not have the need for those $80 to $120 wires like some people do as I don't opereate my vehicle in the 'race' range. I also don't have a trick ingition that double taps the spark plugs. I am going to replace my wires with Jegs' 8.00 power wires for $30.00 part 555-40251(p.121T of the new catalog). They come with grease, looms and numbers tags. Someone has actually put a link to the Jegs website somewhere on this site if you search for it. I am also going with the Jegs Red Hot Ignition series rotor and cap. 19.99 for the set. Brass of course. (p.116T)
I have not made a decision about plugs. I really like my NGK's but am heavily leaning to the autolites.
I have not made a decision about plugs. I really like my NGK's but am heavily leaning to the autolites.
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RE: plug wires and dist cap replace
I have done a tune up on my truck 2 times and messed with it a lot more than that. This last time I did wires I broke a vacuum hose as it was very very brittle so when I barely hit it it snapped. Just be careful of stuff like this and you should be good. It isn't too hard to do. On a level of 1-10 I'd give it a 2 but thats just my personal opinion.
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RE: plug wires and dist cap replace
ORIGINAL: 1BigRamaniac
I do not have the need for those $80 to $120 wires like some people do as I don't opereate my vehicle in the 'race' range. I also don't have a trick ingition that double taps the spark plugs. I am going to replace my wires with Jegs' 8.00 power wires for $30.00 part 555-40251(p.121T of the new catalog). They come with grease, looms and numbers tags. Someone has actually put a link to the Jegs website somewhere on this site if you search for it. I am also going with the Jegs Red Hot Ignition series rotor and cap. 19.99 for the set. Brass of course. (p.116T)
I have not made a decision about plugs. I really like my NGK's but am heavily leaning to the autolites.
I do not have the need for those $80 to $120 wires like some people do as I don't opereate my vehicle in the 'race' range. I also don't have a trick ingition that double taps the spark plugs. I am going to replace my wires with Jegs' 8.00 power wires for $30.00 part 555-40251(p.121T of the new catalog). They come with grease, looms and numbers tags. Someone has actually put a link to the Jegs website somewhere on this site if you search for it. I am also going with the Jegs Red Hot Ignition series rotor and cap. 19.99 for the set. Brass of course. (p.116T)
I have not made a decision about plugs. I really like my NGK's but am heavily leaning to the autolites.
That would be me that posted the link and turned everyone onto jegs wires
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RE: plug wires and dist cap replace
ORIGINAL: Jr. Mechanic
Did you end up getting those? .5mm can actually be alot believe it or not. Besides, aren't the autolites even more expensive?
ORIGINAL: Ram2K1
How you like 'em? I thought about getting those, but everyone said to go with at least 8mm, and they were 7.5mm. Don't really know WTF .5mm does for me, but I went with the 8mm Jegs Hotwires.
ORIGINAL: motorbrreath
just curious, what wires did you go with? i picked up autolites, they are new from what advance told me. they compliment the plugs nicely and they come pre greased. nice wires in my opinion
just curious, what wires did you go with? i picked up autolites, they are new from what advance told me. they compliment the plugs nicely and they come pre greased. nice wires in my opinion
I like em... Just replaced my dist cap and rotor with NAPA. Runs smooth... Couldn't test drive her...one too many during install.[8D][sm=icon_guiness.gif]
I am running the Jeg's 8mm, NAPA dist cap & rotor, and Autolite 3923's. Seems to be running very well. She's gettin trompted to make sure tomorrow.
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RE: plug wires and dist cap replace
ORIGINAL: kowboydmac
Jr., Are you running the Jegs wires yourself?
Jr., Are you running the Jegs wires yourself?
I have a set sitting at the shop in Florida waiting for my Camaro. I have not gotten a chance to put them on yet but did get to look at them and they seem to be pretty nice wires. Jegs sells nice stuff, so I didn't have any doubts.