Replacing leads- any tips?

[CazzaVR 0]

Hi all,

 

The car is misfiring, and after it was serviced I was told it needed new leads and a lamda sensor.

 

Ordered the leads from GSF- any tips on fitting them? I know it's supposed to be an easy job, but I want to do it properly without damaging anything. I have the plastic VW plug tool.

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

Cheers

 

ps- car is '95 VR6.

[Rams 0]

Make sure you know what the firing order is? Someone on hear will know. What I normally do is obviously once you have taken off any plastic moulding take one lead off and match the length with your new leads and do each one like that individually that way if you nervous you will do it wrong you cant!

 

Make sure you get the leads on and off properly without pulling the heads off, always push the leads on as far as you can go with holding the head of the lead and not the actuall cable if you like.

 

You may as well buy a new dizzy cap and rotar arm, they only cost pounds and you will feel a nice crisp difference iof your old ones are nackered. What happens in the dizzy cap is sometimes the corners are burnt and dont spark to each electrode properly hence poor performance and that normally happens when the rotar arm is dirty / dark at the end as its not shooting the spark off properly.

 

Easy when you know how!

[vr6storm 0]

You may as well buy a new dizzy cap and rotar arm, they only cost pounds and you will feel a nice crisp difference iof your old ones are nackered. What happens in the dizzy cap is sometimes the corners are burnt and dont spark to each electrode properly hence poor performance and that normally happens when the rotar arm is dirty / dark at the end as its not shooting the spark off properly.

 

ignore the above quote andyg60 you should have a coil-pack instead of a dizzy :wink:

[CazzaVR 0]

Thanks Rams- I'll give it a go tomorrow :)

 

Yeh, no dizzy as it's a later VR. Cheers Rodders :wink: