Keeping your Coil Packs tight?? HELP

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Highroller

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I have seriously waged war against these damn plastic intakes. I think I have stripped out 4 coil packs so far changing plugs etc!

Any secrets to keeping these things tight and not stripped. I know I have a COP loose again because im getting a studdering at idle.. this always happens on my car, then I start to wiggle each one and low and behold one is loose and when I end up finally getting it tight my car is fine!!

Any suggestions??

 

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Ttt

 

GTvert01

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Are you talking about stripping the threads that the little gold screw goes into?They will be a little loose regardless.

 

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GTvert01 said:

Are you talking about stripping the threads that the little gold screw goes into?They will be a little loose regardless.

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yeah, it seems like some stay tight, where I can not move them with my hand.. others I can wiggle back and forth, and at this point, I cannot tighten, nor loosen the bolt, Im going to have force it out, and buy another new one..

Does these have to be tight, or do you think the studdering hiccuping at idle is from something else?

 

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cram something between the fuel rail and the COP.
i've got a folded piece of cardboard holding down my #3 COP right now because i snapped the damn bolt putting it back in. still gotta figure a way to get the half of the bolt out of the threads in the intake :/

 

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triggz said:

cram something between the fuel rail and the COP.
i've got a folded piece of cardboard holding down my #3 COP right now because i snapped the damn bolt putting it back in. still gotta figure a way to get the half of the bolt out of the threads in the intake :/

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Same problem here. My solution is to wait for an aftermarket intake
WES

 

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just curious. why would u cjange the plugs urself? isnt ur car under warrenty? wont u mess that up changing ur plugs?

 

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01'TRUE BLUE GT

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Those tiny little bolts aren't holding your whole engine together so put your breaker-bar away and use a nutdriver next time ... even a 1/4" ratchet would be overkill for those. I have a bad habit of thinking tighter is better too, but I was careful when I changed my plugs and didn't have any trouble or strip anything.

 

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jorge said:

just curious. why would u cjange the plugs urself? isnt ur car under warrenty? wont u mess that up changing ur plugs?

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A dealer will never replace your plugs before 36,000 miles when your warranty is up ... they think they're supposed to last 100,000 miles.