so i hit 60k on my 04 ram 1500 5.7 , just cleaned TB that was dirty as all heck, and have been thinking of changing plugs , i figured i would go with the stock champion RE 14MCC4 ..... unless you guys think something else is better ??? SO anyway i pulled out the first plug driver side as a test and gapped it it went to .055 OUCH right? i thought gap was .044 or so , now i really think its time to change , is that gap bad ? and what plugs to go with ? also what is the easiets way to get to the back 4 ??? thanks guys i needed the help!

 

buy the stock copper champions...thats not to bad of a gap...when i changed mine out mine were at .45 originally and most were at around .60 thru .65....but yeah dodges like the stock copper champs...

 

ok cool i willl buy those then , was there any easy way to the back 4 ?

 

its tight changing the back 4 plugs on the hemi. you just need to have a good assortment of extensions and such for your ratchet. Its gonna take a little while to change them all, but you get it. It takes most people about 2 hours or so the first time on the hemi. what also worked good for me on the back ones was having a 8 in long piece of fuel line hose ( i put a picture of it below ) or something of that nature. once I got the spark plug loose then id put the fuel hose on the spark plug and twist it out. it would bend and curve around all the parts in the way. maybe it will help out. worked for me tho

 

if you want to skip the 50,000 mile plug change, you ok to run platt plugs ( yes every one jumps up and down saying use copper plugs, may be dodges hipe to get you into the dealer ) the 6.1 hemi rolling of the line has platt plugs.

Using a platt plug, all 16 off them, well cost, but your extending your sparky change intervile, so over time, you get your money back, in my hemmi copper plugs don't last more than a year.

Remove the air box, hemi hat, spark plug socket with a swivel head, extensions, really do help, on my last spark change, I went with copper champions ( only because I all ready had them )

With mds, and 2 plugs per cylinder, some say platt plus run hot and will miss fire, well its the coli setting the spark, not the spark plugs.

 

Copper core plugs have a hotter spark. Copper is a better conductor of electricity than platinum is. Save your money and use either the OEM Champion plugs or some good copper core NGK V-Power plugs like I did. I got mine from www.moesperformance.com for a good price.
Yes it will run on platinums, but better on copper.

 

Coppers! Platinum plugs are ok, I have heard all the things about "don't run platinums or it'll degrade performance", I've not seen it, but if you think the gap won't be off after 30k or so anyway, you'll be in for a bad surprise.

If you are gonna have to go through the hell of pulling them to regap, might just as well use fresh coppers every 30k anyway, IMO...

 

cool thanks guys , im going to buy the stock champions and see how that is , still going to look into trying to find a wasy way into the back 4 KHAWKFAN thanks for the hose trick i do use that on all the plug jobs i have done that way i dont drop the plug in there and mess up the gap, it works great ,

 

It's tight, but doable.

 

so who makes the best copper plug??