spark plug wires?
Okay - I've gotten greasy before, but it's been a while - most of my wrenching has been done on carburetor-based engines. My '97 T-100 V-6 apparently needs new plug wires and/or plugs - I've had it for a couple of months, and haven't had much time to go over it. I went out and bought the wires, thinkin' I could look the plugs over and get 'em if they looked worn or burnt at the electrodes - or even oxidized. What I got was 3 wires for my V-6, which set me back a few paces. I looked under the hood, and sure enough - only 3 wires, not accessible enough to want to work further on in 0F temps. It got drastically worse - wouldn't start at all in subzero temps, ran very ragged when it started (right away) yesterday. Today, in even warmer temps, it wouldn't start again - just not enough spark. I've got no shop manual (or even owner's manual), but work I'd done on younger Toyotas (a Corolla and a SR-5 that both served me well) had been fairly straightforward. Swapping out plugs and wires should be fairly simple - but the 3-wire thing has me spooked. With all that said, here's my question - is there anything cute or unusual I should know about changing these simple parts out? Anything I should look for (or avoid) in choosing plugs? I 'spect to love the thing when it's warm enough to do some tweaking, but getting it to run now, while it's only chilly here in Minnesnowta, would be a good thing, too. Thanks in advance! Danno, the cluefull newbie, or the clueless who used to make a living wrenching - when he wasn't hunting brontosaurs.
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