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| After |
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| Box to house coils |
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| Four coils per box |
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| Raised front of car and removed front wheels for ease of access. Re-purposed 3 foot fluorescent work light adds plenty of light. |
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| Area selected to mount coil boxes, inside rear of fenders. One on drivers side and one on passenger side. |
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| Supporting coil box in place to fabricate and fit mounting brackets. |
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| Diagonal bend of a bracket. |
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| Fitting brackets before welding |
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| Brackets welded to boxes. |
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| Bolted in place using existing running board and fender mount fastener locations |
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| Holes drilled for spark plug wires (two wires per hole) |
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| Plastic tubing will guard wires from chafing |
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| Removing coil/injector wiring harness |
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| Engine with harness and coils removed. There was also a harness for spark plug wires crossing over the engine I removed. |
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| Coil/injector harness laid out on the table. |
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| Each connector was labeled to identify corresponding cylinder |
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| Dissecting the harness to extend the coil wires |
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| Notching coil boxes for coil wire passage |
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| Building spark plug wires |
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| Lubricating spark plug boots in dish soap and water to ease assembly |
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| 3/8 steel tubing used to slip spark plug wire through the boot |
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| Stripping the spark plug wire one inch to add connector end |
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| Crimping end on wire |
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| Wood dowel with shrink tubing to serve as a depth gauge to set wire in boot. Boot depth is critical on HEMI engines for moisture seal purposes. |
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| Black end of dowel inserted in wire connector, then wire is pulled through the boot until end of boot aligns with beginning of white shrink tubing |
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| Routing spark plug wires to the coil boxes |
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| Store bought wire separators, home made stand-offs |
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| Installing coil ends on spark plug wires. Two styles were needed for each coil, one late model GM snap on type and one early push in. |
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| I pulled the wires through the protective tubing then through the holes in the box. I then trimmed the wire to fit into the coils to assure the length was good before installing the boots and connectors |
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| I used the same 3/8 steel tube technique to slip the spark plug wire through the coil boot as I did with the Spark plug boot but with a shorter piece of tube |
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| When the spark plug boots and connectors were all installed I connected the coil wires and the wiring was done |
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| I labeled the box covers and made rubber gaskets for them |
