Well finally got the plugs and wires swaped out. Here are the details.
Getting to the back of the engine:
You have to remove the platic shrowd on the firewall. Its held in by plastic clips like wall anchors, take out the plastic screw and the clip comes out. One of them was striped and i had to pry it out.
Oil in the wells:
I borrowed an idea from the MTX fluid change and used a shop vac, a two liter bottle and some hose to suck out the oil while spraying carb cleaner in there just to make sure it was clean. I do recommend somthing better than a two liter bottle because it caved in the second i turned the shop vac on.
Plug Removal:
When i went to remove the plugs i just used a long and short extention to remove them. When removing the back 3 i had to remove a metal bracked with a small plastic canister and a sensor held to the intake with a 12mm bolt. After that the extentions and the 5/8 plug socket went into the plug wells no problem. The old plugs were AGSP32PPs, were very old, and had crush washers where the new AGSP32FMs didnt
Plug Installation:
When you first intall them its a llittle tricky to get the socket off the plug when using a plug socket. I hand tightened them then removed the rubber insert from the socket then tighened them down
Wires with intake on:
Boy was this fun, its pretty basic, just swap them one at a time routing them the same way. Make sure to take the plastic clip off the coil end of the wire otherwise its impossible. I used ProSpark wires, it was all the the local parts store had and they were only 60 bucks! However the front bank of wires were way to long and the slack causes them to rest on the coolant line going to the throttle body. I plan to replace them with the Motorcraft wires or maybe somthing better.
Dont forget to reset your idle
After changing my O2s/Plugs/Wires my car runs 100% better. When i got done it was raing and late so i just drove it enough to set the computer but i look forward to the drive to work in the moring.
