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Jan 13 2015 09:05pm
That is a lot of carbon.
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Jan 13 2015 09:09pm
Ya it's time. Didn't check gap but looks fuckin wide. Kinda worried about the rear ones, not sure if I wanna attempt it myself.
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Jan 13 2015 09:39pm
Just me personally, I've had about 7 vehicles ? Give or take and never seen that much carbon built up on plugs haha

Was that plug hard to come out? Are you concerned about breaking the rears ? If so spray them a few times throughout the day and let soak over night. Penetrating oil, or liquid wrench are good.
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Jan 13 2015 09:55pm
Quote (IB0T @ Jan 13 2015 09:39pm)
Just me personally, I've had about 7 vehicles ? Give or take and never seen that much carbon built up on plugs  haha

Was that plug hard to come out? Are you concerned about breaking the rears ? If so spray them a few times throughout the day and let soak over night. Penetrating oil, or liquid wrench are good.


Ya it was on there pretty decent. I'd pb blast them.. the problem is reaching them. Not much room back there and don't have a ton of tools to work with. Taking the wiper motor housing + alternator and brackets off to get to the passenger side one.. I could see the driver and center one from below but that was tight with not much leverage space. Might be able to reach behind and get all three but not sure.

Had to do the same thing to replace the alternator in my voyager, but haven't worked on this one ever. Big ass manifold in the way.

And about the plugs... they for sure need to get done lol. It's got 264k on it, dad put 110k since he got it and no clue how the previous owner took care of it.

Also i'm a bit worried about the rear plugs just due to all the oil/dirt thats surrounding them. It'd be hard to get to to clean it out a bit. Had to spray the front to clear most of it.

This post was edited by JJRK on Jan 13 2015 09:59pm
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Jan 13 2015 11:01pm
>>First thought was plugs/wires
>>Clearly hasnt done them in AGES

Like, wtf man

Basic maintenance.
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Jan 13 2015 11:16pm
Quote (CarsAndKush @ Jan 14 2015 05:01am)
>>First thought was plugs/wires
>>Clearly hasnt done them in AGES

Like, wtf man

Basic maintenance.


still trying to figure out if he has plugs or ignition coils duh...
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Jan 13 2015 11:18pm
Quote (charliemurphy @ Jan 14 2015 01:16am)
still trying to figure out if he has plugs or ignition coils duh...


Like, if you had problems 6 months ago, and you thought it was plugs/wires, like why hadnt you fucking checked them yet?

Some of you disgust me.

This post was edited by CarsAndKush on Jan 13 2015 11:18pm
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Jan 14 2015 12:58am
Quote (CarsAndKush @ Jan 13 2015 11:18pm)
Like, if you had problems 6 months ago, and you thought it was plugs/wires, like why hadnt you fucking checked them yet?

Some of you disgust me.


I just started driving this a month or so ago. My dad drove it previously and only symptom it would do is very occasionally die once while coming to a stop. Other than that it's been fine.
Symptoms I described just started recently. Dad didn't give a shit about it towards the end, he was just driving it till the tires fell off so he could get something new. I decided to take this because it's actually better than the piece of shit voyager I was driving.

I completely understand your view though.

Appreciate everyone's input thus far.

This post was edited by JJRK on Jan 14 2015 01:00am
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Quote (JJRK @ Jan 13 2015 07:47pm)
Would bad spark cause a poor combustion thus having fuel in exhaust? Just curious
Cleaned the iacv and throttle body today.
Was running rough again but fixed itself before I started working on it and still ran fine after I cleaned it so can't really tell if that did much. But it was probably needed. Was fairly gunked up.
Pulled a plug, looks like it's time, but I'm not an expert.
http://i.imgur.com/jVUJpoY.jpg


I thought you already had checked the plugs?

Holy Hell Batman. A new set of plugs should make that thing run like a damn race car compared to what it is now.
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Quote (JJRK @ Jan 14 2015 02:47am)
Would bad spark cause a poor combustion thus having fuel in exhaust? Just curious
Cleaned the iacv and throttle body today.
Was running rough again but fixed itself before I started working on it and still ran fine after I cleaned it so can't really tell if that did much. But it was probably needed. Was fairly gunked up.
Pulled a plug, looks like it's time, but I'm not an expert.
http://i.imgur.com/jVUJpoY.jpg


Yeaaaa....
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