What did you do to your G-Body today? [2011-2018]

Trust me, when you get to be my age, you are going to regret every one of those "I'll just do it myself" lifts.

Find a buddy or even bribe a neighbor with a beer . . . whatever it takes

Canon_Mutant said:

Trust me, when you get to be my age, you are going to regret every one of those "I'll just do it myself" lifts.

Find a buddy or even bribe a neighbor with a beer . . . whatever it takes

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Yep! I already feel the pain daily from crap i did years ago! I'm alot smarter about it now, well somewhat anyways! My brother n law is coming over in the AM to help get it situated.

The part for my cooling system didn't show up so I built a couple of 6.5 speaker enclosures so I can mount them to the door sheet metal instead of the lower door panel....and I have to make a cover on the lower door panel for the speaker. It should sound alot better than it did since I'll have buzzmat on the door and in the speaker enclosure.

I finished the DBW pedal assembly.

Changed plugs and oil today. Could not for the life of me change 3rd plug from front to back on passenger side due to the headers. Had to go from underneath with open end wrench on same plug on drivers side. Passenger side I was able to bust it loose using same method but if I were to remove there was no way I could see being able to get new plug in

Changed plugs and oil today. Could not for the life of me change the 3rd plug from front to back on passenger side due to the headers. Had to go from underneath with open end wrench on same plug on drivers side. Passenger side I was able to bust it loose using same method but if I were to remove there was no way I could see being able to get new plug in

shawn1112 said:

Changed plugs and oil today. Could not for the life of me change the 3rd plug from front to back on passenger side due to the headers. Had to go from underneath with open end wrench on same plug on drivers side. Passenger side I was able to bust it loose using same method but if I were to remove there was no way I could see being able to get new plug in

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What about loosening the header so you can pull it back to get to those plugs. It may cost you a header gasket but unless your changing plugs often it's not a bad sacrifice.

This is what I did.

Get yourself a 1/2" drive spark plug socket.

The 1/2" drive sockets do not have the step-down in them like the 3/8"

Cut it in half.

It will fit over the spark plug and the terminal end will pass through the socket giving you plenty of clearance to use a wrench to remove it

I have made a couple in different lengths to make my life easier.

My help showed up and we got the 5.3 supported. Now i can get to work on this sucker!

pontiacgp said:

What about loosening the header so you can pull it back to get to those plugs. It may cost you a header gasket but unless your changing plugs often it's not a bad sacrifice.

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Yeah that's what I was thinking. The header bolts are pretty rusty and don't want to crack one. Might go spray them every few hours with some PB blaster then try to crack them loose tomorrow.