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Old Jan 6, 2016 | 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by 454Luvr
Will the boots slide out through the space between the mounts and block? It's not necessary to unbolt the motor mounts to replace the wires, is it?
On the old wire remove the boot on the distributor end and tie a string to the wire and pull it out from the spark plug end.

Remove the same boot from the new wire and move the string to the new wire and pull it back up.
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Old Jan 7, 2016 | 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by 454Luvr
Will the boots slide out through the space between the mounts and block? It's not necessary to unbolt the motor mounts to replace the wires, is it?
Out, unfortunately, is easy. Getting the new ones back in is the trick. I never had much luck doing it though if you take the plug boot off, you'll have a fighting chance. On different occasions I did lift the motor and loosened the motor mount to route them stock and I also bypassed the mount and zip tied them to the mount.mount. The latter is a little half a$$ed but did work for quite some time.
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Old Jan 7, 2016 | 10:12 AM
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i yanked them out and it did not survive, didn't matter they wear toast, the po didn't do it or had it done in years, since it was on the bottom and not accessible to the average joe
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Old Jan 7, 2016 | 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by toobroketoretire
Lube them with dish washing liquid and they'll slip right thru.
toobroke- "Lube them with dish washing liquid and they'll slip right thru." You realize this has the potential to start one of those "which oil do you use in your car" threads, don't you?


I prefer Dawn with the blue color and original scent for my Corvette with BB, but Palmolive with new fresh scent for my RX-7. RA
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