I have an 82 f250 400ci. I'm trying to figure out the way that the spark plug wires are "supposed" to be routed. Not the firing order, but the actual path that the wire is supposed to take from the distriburor to each cylinder. The wire clips are long gone, but I see that LMCtruck sells them. If anyone has pics, or can detail it for me i would appreciate it. I believe there are two wires specifically that are not supposed to run paralell to each other, but i'm not sure which two they are. Thanks for any help!!

 

The ones that need to be seperated are 5 and 6 just put 7 in between them on the wire clip. As far as the path goes, Longest to the back shortest to the front. Chances are if you are using a set of standard wires that they will be extra long. There are a lot of options for wire management though, just search the net, I am positive you will find something that works right.

 

There are 2 ways i know of the factory routed the wires.One was over top of the valve covers with a wire loom hooked on the tab on top of the valve cover. The other ran the wires around the front of the valve covers using wire looms that clipped over special valve cover bolts. My preferred method is to go the bone yard and find the valvecover bolt style , buy the plastic clips for them from ford and use a custom wire set so i can get them the length i want.]


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also- try to make overlapping wires meet at cose to 90 degree as possible as they are less likely to share that way- get good wires and it's less of an issue. I plan on making my own some day to get them the right lenght- replacement sets are inherently long and I think they used 460 sets for just about every v8.