Wild one
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Yea i know my picture taking abilities suck,lol
Hopefully you guys can tell how i go about cleaning up the coils from the pic's.
The first pic,is just a pic of everything disassembled.If your truck has the resistors under the spring in the coil towers,you'll want to remove them and clean them to,i don't have a coil handy with the resistors,so i can't show you a pic of them,but they're easy to see,as they'll come up closer to the top of the coil tower.If they're corroded in to the point they won't fall out with a good shake,you might have to drill a small hole in them,and then use a sheet metal screw turned into the hole to pull them out.If that's the case just throw them away,they didn't start using the resistors until about 2016,before that there was just the spring.The coils with-out the resistors do use a longer spring,so if you do toss them,you'll want to buy new boots,with the proper spring
The 2nd pic shows the differance in spring length after they've been cleaned and stretched
I always clean the springs up with my bench mounted grinders wire wheel,then i stretch the springs out about a 1/4" to 1/2".You can use pretty well anything you want as long as it cleans the corrosion off the springs.If the springs are in really bad shape,you can buy new springs and boots from Rock Auto
The 3rd pic shows the screw head in the coil towers you want to try and get as clean as possible.I've never been able to remove them,so you're stuck cleaning them in place
i use the red handled pic to scratch as much corrossion out of the tower as i can ,before i use the little Dremel carbon steel brushes to polish it up as much as i can.If you don't have a Dremel,a 3/8" drill either corded or cordless works just as well as a Dremel
The 4th pic shows where i put a light smear of Di-electric grease on the coil towers.I just use a finger to smear it around and coat the coil tower.The 1 tower already has the dab smeared around,the other tower shows roughly the amount i squeeze onto the tower before smearing it.I try and get it under the lip of the tower along with the tower itself.
The 5th pic is the little Dremel brushes i use,they're small enough ,they fit inside the coil tower easily.
The 6th pic shows the springs being reinserted back into the boots,i leave them sticking out slightly,as they'll push back to where they'll want to sit,as soon as you reinstall the boots onto the coil towers.Once the boots are installed,i usually give them a couple rotations to seat the spring onto the screw head in the tower
The 7th pic is showing how a pick and the Dremel brushes fit into the coil towers.
The 8th pic shows where to apply a very thin smear of di-electric grease to the plugs porcellin.Always apply it at the base of the porcellin,never put it inside the boot.Inside the boot can cause it to transfer onto the end terminal of the plug,where it can become an insulator. Di-electric grease is an insulator,and isn't great at conducting electricity so you want to keep it off the electrical contact points if possible
Hopefully this helps you guys out,if you plan to do some coil maintence when you do your sparkplug maintence
Hopefully you guys can tell how i go about cleaning up the coils from the pic's.
The first pic,is just a pic of everything disassembled.If your truck has the resistors under the spring in the coil towers,you'll want to remove them and clean them to,i don't have a coil handy with the resistors,so i can't show you a pic of them,but they're easy to see,as they'll come up closer to the top of the coil tower.If they're corroded in to the point they won't fall out with a good shake,you might have to drill a small hole in them,and then use a sheet metal screw turned into the hole to pull them out.If that's the case just throw them away,they didn't start using the resistors until about 2016,before that there was just the spring.The coils with-out the resistors do use a longer spring,so if you do toss them,you'll want to buy new boots,with the proper spring
The 2nd pic shows the differance in spring length after they've been cleaned and stretched
I always clean the springs up with my bench mounted grinders wire wheel,then i stretch the springs out about a 1/4" to 1/2".You can use pretty well anything you want as long as it cleans the corrosion off the springs.If the springs are in really bad shape,you can buy new springs and boots from Rock Auto
The 3rd pic shows the screw head in the coil towers you want to try and get as clean as possible.I've never been able to remove them,so you're stuck cleaning them in place
i use the red handled pic to scratch as much corrossion out of the tower as i can ,before i use the little Dremel carbon steel brushes to polish it up as much as i can.If you don't have a Dremel,a 3/8" drill either corded or cordless works just as well as a Dremel
The 4th pic shows where i put a light smear of Di-electric grease on the coil towers.I just use a finger to smear it around and coat the coil tower.The 1 tower already has the dab smeared around,the other tower shows roughly the amount i squeeze onto the tower before smearing it.I try and get it under the lip of the tower along with the tower itself.
The 5th pic is the little Dremel brushes i use,they're small enough ,they fit inside the coil tower easily.
The 6th pic shows the springs being reinserted back into the boots,i leave them sticking out slightly,as they'll push back to where they'll want to sit,as soon as you reinstall the boots onto the coil towers.Once the boots are installed,i usually give them a couple rotations to seat the spring onto the screw head in the tower
The 7th pic is showing how a pick and the Dremel brushes fit into the coil towers.
The 8th pic shows where to apply a very thin smear of di-electric grease to the plugs porcellin.Always apply it at the base of the porcellin,never put it inside the boot.Inside the boot can cause it to transfer onto the end terminal of the plug,where it can become an insulator. Di-electric grease is an insulator,and isn't great at conducting electricity so you want to keep it off the electrical contact points if possible
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Hopefully this helps you guys out,if you plan to do some coil maintence when you do your sparkplug maintence
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