Just do it enough times and youll start to "enjoy" it. Takes me about a half hour to change everything ignition related now. Took me about a half hour to just do the wires when I first got the truck. If you think the dodge is bad... http://www.procharger.com/images/artwork/tpi_vette.jpg Thats a pita. You have to either remove the cowl or move the distributor to get #'s 6 and 5, so you have to set your initial again.

nope. If you dont believe it can be done, when it gets a little warmer Ill take a video of me doing it. Shoot, last night my buddy and installed springs, weights, bushings, rotor, and cap in his distributor, pulled the plugs and wires, measured the wires for best fit, blew excess gas out of the plug holes, and reinstalled everything in 28 min. (I only know because we were keeping an eye on the clock because we were trying to get to taco bell before it closed!). 68 chevelle.

 

My wife's old 88 Ford Aerostar Minivan was also a real PITA. I had to remove the front tires just to pull the plugs. Couldn't reach them from the top or bottom. Talk about fun. Pull the tires and use 2 feet of extensions just to reach the plugs. Usually snapped off every plug while removing them. Never had a chance to re-gap and often broke new ones installing them. Glad we got rid of that hunk-a-junk.

 

I hate the cars you have to remove tires to do plugs. My 86 monte was like that. Plug changes on 4th gen lt1 fbodys are also a REAL pita! (with stock manifolds)

 

r plugs on any
luxury" vehicle where you have to remove the acoustic shield, all kinds of plastic and then the coil on spark plug set up. Many cars don't even have the distributor anymore, just alot of junk on the spark plug, which makes taking them off a PITA. My old Montero was like this as is my 740. Such a pain to do the work.

That and clam-shell hoods are a PITA, they look cool, but you have to take the thing off to do anything usefull.

 

With my lincoln I just left all that junk off. Even if you dont they are usuially a bolt or two. Speeking of quick changes, I could do the plugs/wires in my lincoln in a hair over 10 min. It helps when the plugs are directly in the middle of the valve covers and the coil packs are up front.

 

Seriously? If you get Mopar wires, they're marked for each cylinder they go to and that's super simple. The firing order is on the manifold, and if you make a note where 1 was (if you can't see it, I couldn't) it's even easier. I did plugs in about 20 minutes, only because I had never done them on this engine and used anti-sieze. Pulled the wires off the cap, pulled it out along with the rotor, replaced them, and then went a wire at a time and took well less than an hour. Maybe I got lucky?

 

i also have cussed the rear location of the distributor

the sad thing is that Dodge was putting no-distributor coil packs
using 'wasted spark firing'
on V6s and V10 back in the early 1990s
and there is really no excuse
except money
for not making the Magnum series V8s 'wasted spark' with coil packs too

 

I noticed that to replace your coil packs with 'hot' ones runs about $700.00!