So instead of investigating why my stereo head unit isn’t working in my TJ, I decide today’s The day I’m going to change the spark plugs in my car. So I start the process and by the time I got into it I had the entire manifold removed and about 70 bolts from different parts of the vehicle. I started to panic because I wasn’t sure how I was going to remember where everything was supposed to go back to. My panic was taken over by anger when I realized I have special spark plugs that no one has except for 100 miles away. So they’re being shipped to Green Bay tomorrow and my son is driving them to me. But once I got in there I started to realize why my car seem to be burning oil. It looks as though the spark plugs seals need to be replaced. That kit comes with a valve cover gasket also which should be replaced at the same time. Dave is now getting a little worried that we might be in over our heads.Oh yeah, I have the Haynes service manual for my car, but after searching for 35 minutes realized I brought it to work to look at so we don’t even have that to use. I was hoping somebody could give me some reassurance that we will be able to finish this job up. My car has a mivec 3.8 L engine. It’s a ralliart model for the Mitsubishi gallant 2009.
Considering all the work we did to get to the six spark plugs, I really don’t want to put it all back together knowing that those seals are bad and I would need to replace them very soon or have a shop do it. So I’m really hoping we’re going to be able to finish this job. Any input is appreciated. Also replacing the manifold gasket set and throttle bo day gasket. And my throttle body was very black. Which is concerning based on others I’ve seen much older and cleaner.
Considering all the work we did to get to the six spark plugs, I really don’t want to put it all back together knowing that those seals are bad and I would need to replace them very soon or have a shop do it. So I’m really hoping we’re going to be able to finish this job. Any input is appreciated. Also replacing the manifold gasket set and throttle bo day gasket. And my throttle body was very black. Which is concerning based on others I’ve seen much older and cleaner.