65 327 Plug Wire Replacement
 

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

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?

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

Good luck... GUSTO

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

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

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

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.