changed spark plugs

[reefish]

I changed my spark plugs last week but wasnt able to get 2 plugs out because I stripped the bolt for the plug wires cover...the darn thing was hard to reach with an allen wrench and ended up stripping the bolt. Any suggestions how to extract the allen bolt out of the cover without dropping the engine? (not enough room). :oops:

[Tool Pants]

I doubt if you stripped the threads on the allen bolts.

Are you saying that your allen wrench is not a tight fit in the 6 point socket in the head of the allen bolts? So that the internal socket of the coil allen bolts are rounded?

And, are the coil bolts on each side of the engine that you were not able to remove the ones that are closest to the front of the car?

[reefish]

I doubt if you stripped the threads on the allen bolts.

Are you saying that your allen wrench is not a tight fit in the 6 point socket in the head of the allen bolts? So that the internal socket of the coil allen bolts are rounded?

And, are the coil bolts on each side of the engine that you were not able to remove the ones that are closest to the front of the car?

They were both stripped and I had to cut the top of allen bolt to get it off. I finally asked the the guy at Lowe's and he suggested to use a porter-cable cut off tool and it works...thanks for the reply Tool pants!!