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Old Mar 9, 2013 | 08:31 PM
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Plug Wire Nightmare

I spent all afternoon replacing plug wires on my 292. What should have been a tedious job was made a chore because rubber wire holders from Dennis Carpenters were too large for the brackets. They required large Channel Locks to compress them enough to get a bolt through them. I gave up on the passenger sided bracket and bolted one end to the block and rapped it around the rubber holder.

Are they always this hard or did I get a bad set?

The truck starts and runs better. Tomorrow I will try to get the spark plug out. The are frozen. I am going to warm up the engine put the truck on jack stands and see it I can brake them loose from the bottom.
 
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Originally Posted by Macs1964F100
I spent all afternoon replacing plug wires on my 292. What should have been a tedious job was made a chore because rubber wire holders from Dennis Carpenters were too large for the brackets.
There's more than one type of rubber plug wire retainers. What part number did you get from Carpenter?
 
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