Help me man!
Im relacing my old Bosch spark plugs (I know .. I know)with new NGKs. The Boshes start coming out looking really bad. As i pull the ignition coil from the third cylander, the coil sticks to the spark plug head, and my dumb *** keeps tugging. The inner coil of the ignition coil is stretched out of the housing. Is this coil f***ed??.

I look at the bosch spark plug. the non sparking end has melted and TILTED and had snagged the coil contact point.

The fouth cyclander coil is stuck too. i dont want to ruin two coils. what now.

1. Can i drive the max with 1 pug and 1 coil unatached? (at all?)
2. how much are new coil packs?
3. could I jst cut the extended stratche4d coil and re install it. or is that a recipor for total diaster?!

any ideas or help !

thank guys

 

You can run on 5 cylinders if you "have to" for short distances. Make sure you disconnect the harness from the coil pack.

They run about $80-100 each.

 

i got coils off a 70k car.. I'll sell them for $30 each shipped of $110 for all 6 if you end up needing them.

 

Just as a note:

You can't drive it long this way (no ignition to cylinder)... the unburned fuel will overheat your Catalyst and destroy it...

 

So i am following up my own post hoping that it may help others down the line.

Firstly. I didnt have to replace any ignition coils after all. just as I was ready to dish out for 2 new coils, (as the contact coils appeared to be stratched out of the coil pack housing) I decided to disassemble a coil pack, and to my genuine surprise, there's nothing to them. I tugged to seperate the long coil housing from the transitor?, and the contact coil just fell right out. (a good thing) So i just stuffed the coil back in to the housing throught the top, and it was a good as new.

Now the lesson learned. I know it has been said many times before... but seriosly folks. Bosch spark plugs dont do well in the VQ30. of the six bosch plugs that I pulled from the engine (after 20K miles). 2 where so severly melted at the contact end that they had snaged on the ignition coils causing my panic. 1 spark plug had no electrode left. NONE. the spraking prongs had been cooked away.

SO thelong and short:

NGK platinums ONLY!!!!
If your ignition coil packs have issues dont be affraid to pull them apart. they are fairly simply devices.

thanks for all your help gang