On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, brian duffey wrote:
[...]
> As for the heat shields on the plugs, YES - Man, I was cursing the designer
> who came up with those! At least they made them removable though. I put mine
> back on yesterday when doing the plugs, but they may be gone soon!
? I thought the plugs were quite easy to change on my '96 318. I
didn't even have to remove the heat shields. Just pull off the
plug wire, blow some compressed air down into the sheild, then
use a socket wrench with a spark plug socket and an extension to break
the plugs free; disconnect the wrench, spin the socket and extension
by hand to back the plug out. Reverse the process to re-install,
but use a torque wrench instead to torque 'em to specs.
Maybe there are some clearance issues I don't know about with the
newer bodystyle though.
-Jon-
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