Preventive spark plug removal??
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Burning Brakes
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Preventive spark plug removal??
Being a glutton for punishment, I was thinking of pulling each of my spark plugs now (a 2004 with 21K mi) and slapping a bit of anti-seize on them before reinstalling. The thought is to avoid difficulties with thread galling later when the plugs are due for replacement.
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
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Being a glutton for punishment, I was thinking of pulling each of my spark plugs now (a 2004 with 21K mi) and slapping a bit of anti-seize on them before reinstalling. The thought is to avoid difficulties with thread galling later when the plugs are due for replacement.
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
A number of years ago I did the same thing to the oil dip stick bracket bolt and also the A.I.R. tube bolts where they bolt to the exhaust manifolds.
Melting Slicks
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Being a glutton for punishment, I was thinking of pulling each of my spark plugs now (a 2004 with 21K mi) and slapping a bit of anti-seize on them before reinstalling. The thought is to avoid difficulties with thread galling later when the plugs are due for replacement.
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
Melting Slicks
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From: Powell TN
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They probably already have some kind of anti-seize on them from the factory. I changed mine at 95,000 miles, then took the new ones out, 2000 miles later, at 97,000 to re-gap them. There was no noticeable difference between the two. 
Drifting
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Smart-Very smart!
Being a glutton for punishment, I was thinking of pulling each of my spark plugs now (a 2004 with 21K mi) and slapping a bit of anti-seize on them before reinstalling. The thought is to avoid difficulties with thread galling later when the plugs are due for replacement.
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
Yep, thats me a couple of weeks ago banging my head. Changed at 93,000 for the second time on my Y2K. Last time I had run out of Anti-sieze and just put a little lube on them. My Bad!. Had to Use Blaster and a lot of patience to wiggle one sucker out. Used Anti sieze on the new installation while banging my head once in a while to remind me never to do that again.
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Melting Slicks
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Being a glutton for punishment, I was thinking of pulling each of my spark plugs now (a 2004 with 21K mi) and slapping a bit of anti-seize on them before reinstalling. The thought is to avoid difficulties with thread galling later when the plugs are due for replacement.
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
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Being a glutton for punishment, I was thinking of pulling each of my spark plugs now (a 2004 with 21K mi) and slapping a bit of anti-seize on them before reinstalling. The thought is to avoid difficulties with thread galling later when the plugs are due for replacement.
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
Worthwhile? Waste of time?
What say you, the collective wisdom that is C5 Tech?
Burning Brakes
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I don't think you have to worry about the spark plugs getting stuck in the heads. The difficult part of replacing the plugs on the vette is getting the the plug wires off of the spark plugs.
I recently replaced my plugs and wires and ended up destroying all but one of the wires while wrestling them off. I planned on changing the wires after reading about all of the horror stories of getting them off. I put a good amount of dielectic grease on the boots of the new wires, but when I went to see if I could pull them off the other day I found they were still a pain to get off. I gave up for fear of damaging the wires.
If you do try to pull the plugs be sure to get a new set of wires. But from my experience, even new well greased wires are still a pain to get off so I don't know how much trouble you'll be saving yourself by removing them now.
I recently replaced my plugs and wires and ended up destroying all but one of the wires while wrestling them off. I planned on changing the wires after reading about all of the horror stories of getting them off. I put a good amount of dielectic grease on the boots of the new wires, but when I went to see if I could pull them off the other day I found they were still a pain to get off. I gave up for fear of damaging the wires.
If you do try to pull the plugs be sure to get a new set of wires. But from my experience, even new well greased wires are still a pain to get off so I don't know how much trouble you'll be saving yourself by removing them now.
