norskbill

I found a bad plug wire and I have decided to replace the full set. Fortunatley the bad wire was cylinder 5 and cylinders 5-8 were easily replaced. Looking at cylinders 1-4 the wires go behind the engine mounts.

Will I be able to feed the wires through that space or will I have to remove the engine mount? I am thinking that the coil end of the plug wire should go through the space.

Bill

365GTB4

I think that depends on the plug wires, the stock 7mm should clear, but after market with big molded ends could be a problem. Are you running a stock ignition?

GUSTO14

Check out this post, a lot of good info here...
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...-your-own.html

Good luck... GUSTO

JohnZ

Just remove the distributor end boots, thread the two front wires on each side behind the mounts, and go from there.

norskbill

Yes, I am running a stock ignition and installing a standard set of Packard wires.

Looks like they will thread through from your comments.

Thanks for the help,
Bill

67TBowl

Bill,

I tied a string to the old wire before I removed it. After removing the old wire, I tied the string to the new wire and used the string to help guide the new wire thru.

Good Luck,
Mark

rwerth7

Follow John Z's suggestion. And to make it easier, I cut off the plug connector on the old wire and attached the new wire, distributor end, to the old wire, at the plug end, using a long piece of bailing wire. Then I just pulled the old wire through the engine mount, through the chrome channel till the bailing wire was all the way through. Then I pulled the bailing wire with the new wire through the engine mount and chrome channel. All eight wires took only a couple of hours.