I always had good luck with the champion truck plugs for my 4x4 93 dakota 5.2 V-8 and my 4x4 97 ram 1500 5.9. Need thoughts and ideasfor replacement plugs for my 2004 4x4 1500 ram hemi.

 

Good old Champions are what the Hemi craves. I always had great luck with Bosch Platinums, especially in all four of the 4.0 I6 engines I had in my Wrangler and Grand Cherokees, that engine performs so much better and picks up an easy 2 mpg also. So I put them in the Hemi at 30k. SOB hated them, ran so bad I thought I screwed up putting them in or messed up a gap big time. Nope, just hates them. Made inquirees on forums and found others reported the same, not only from Bosch Platinums, but just about all the high priced "performance" plugs...

 

Hammerz71 does the hemi take 16 plugs?

 

Yup and two of them are a b*tch to get to...

 

It seams like all Dodge motors like plain Champions. My Grandpa and Dad have always been Mopar guys and always ran Champions. My Dad tried different plugs in a 318 one time and it didn't like them either.

 

I just did mine today. Take off the airbox lid and Hemi hat. Put a blanket on the cross member where the hood latch is. Sit on that to get the rear 4 plugs on driver side. The others you can do from the front and passenger side standing on the ground, unless you are really short.

You will need a 10mm socket along with a spark plug socket, various extensions and a telescoping pen magnet.

.045 gap.

While you are at it clean your TB, this will require a 8mm socket and of course a TB/Carb cleaning solution.

 

I know this is off topic but, is there a gasket or seal to replace when you pull the TB off?

 

Yup, Champions.

A lot of guys waste their money on platinums and such. They don't help and maybe hurt the performance.

 

No. It is a rubber gasket o-ring type thing.

 

So Just plain old CHampion Copper spark plugs are the best huh? Or are any champions good?