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Old 12-26-2019, 12:21 PM   #183
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Did this on my car over the weekend, and doing it with a friend on his FR-S this evening.



It's way easier to do after releasing the engine/transmission mounts and jacking up each side of the engine. It takes <20 minutes to do and will make the rest of the job a breeze.


edit: followup - we did the entire job in just under 2 hours, from pulling into the garage to pulling out and including test starts for every plug. One little question I had, however. On both of our cars ('13 and '15), after doing the third spark plug (closest to the passenger), the car would start and then immediately stall out (over a few trials). We would re-do it, lower that side of the engine, and...it would work! My theory is that either I wasn't getting the coil pack on correctly for that particular plug, or that the engine doesn't like to be lifted up on the RH side (relative to the engine bay) on start. Has anyone else experienced this?

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