Spark plug wire puller

[Pho20]

What do you guys like to use? I'm tired of messing up boots and the harbors freight $1.89 one *****

 

[928'er]

I find that a pair of these (any brand, even HF) work great and give you a straight pull - even when the plugs are buried deep in the cam cover.

 

[texasprd]

Lisle #52990 plug wire puller

 

[shockwave]

I like the hazet 1849 pliers the best you can find knock off for cheap thru eBay for around 15-20 I paid much more about 60 for them but the best around for ignition wires

 

[raddksn]

I find that a pair of these (any brand, even HF) work great and give you a straight pull - even when the plugs are buried deep in the cam cover.

So that's what those are for!

 

[Pho20]

I find that a pair of these (any brand, even HF) work great and give you a straight pull - even when the plugs are buried deep in the cam cover.

I actually tried these today and they work well I may try dipping the heads in that red rubber stuff

 

[bczygan]

I find that a pair of these (any brand, even HF) work great and give you a straight pull - even when the plugs are buried deep in the cam cover.

I just bought the three piece HF set of those long reach hose grip pliers, hoping to use them for that purpose on my Astro Van.

Haven't tried them yet.

Glad to hear they are a possible solution.

Bill

 

[Pho20]

That's the set I got tore up two hoses and one spark plug boot the tips need to be rubberized

 

[sberry]

I will have to get pic but one from bent welding rod works good as any.

 

[Corndoggeh]

Heck, even the $12 ones at Autozone work pretty well. It saved me the trouble of pulling the #3 spark plug when I was doing a tune-up on my girlfriends 92 4 cylinder ranger where theres a split on the upper air intake just big enough to get the pullers in there. Never thought of just using hose pliers!

 

[kctyphoon]

They are called ring nose pliers.. Crescent and Gearwrench make the long and narrow ones with the "double x" joint

 

[L.Cheapo]

The only Mac tool I own, the one on the left. Works pretty well on the vehicles I own. This one is branded Matco, but its the same tool. (not my pic)

 

[redmondjp]

Before you put the wires back on, apply a light coat of silicone grease to the insides of the boots. Even when doing this, when you have 100K mile service intervals, the plug wires pretty much become one with whatever they are connected to, so the best thing is simply to replace them at the same time as the plugs.

It was a different story back when we were changing or cleaning plugs every few thousand miles.

 

[jimmyin3D]

I have some made by Lisle that work good, blue point rebadges it as well.