have to remove the air box

 

I just changed all 4 of my plugs a week ago before I took off on my trip....very simple,use your plug wrench from your tool kit with a 17mm open end wrench on the end of it.They arent the easiest plugs to get at but I had no problems,I do recommend taking a gander down there before you get the old plug completely unthreaded and before you put it back in too due to any dirt that may have gotten down in that recessed area.It would really suck to drop some grains of sand or dirt into the heads!!!! Wouldnt make for a very good day/emoticons/emotion-1.gif

 

yeah, use the bikes plug wrench form the tool kit. I used a rachat on top of that, worked no problem, and yes, if you haven't done to BAK, you need to remove the airbox too. Torqued them down that way too.

 

To msm698's point about the dirt, ALWAYS blow some compressed air around the plug hole before removing your spark plugs! This will blow away the particles of dirt from around the hole and hopefully make for a much nicer day....[/emoticons/emotion-1.gif]

 

Use the plug wrench and 17mm open end wrench in your tool kit.
You (DO NOT) need to remove the airbox. I have changed my plugs
three times with no airbox removal.

 

YEah I pulled mine prior to the BAK. The airbox can stay in

 

When installing them use a hose to hold the plugs and screw it ,then tight.

 

If you remove the coil(easy to do) the airbox can stay in place. Use the toolkits plugwrench.

 

No need to remove coil.

 

quote:Originally posted by Dunkherron

Use the plug wrench and 17mm open end wrench in your tool kit.
You (DO NOT) need to remove the airbox. I have changed my plugs
three times with no airbox removal.


If you are running a 100% stock bike with all plumbing intact, you can change all the plugs except the front right without touching the airbox. Tank has got to come off.

For the front right plug, don't need to remove the airbox but it sure helps to loosen it so it could be jiggled. In order to do this, I needed to remove the side air filter case, intake air temperature sensor and loosen the clamps on the throttle bodies.

I also found it necessary to remove the intake air sensor bracket from the airbox so the linear control valve hose could be moved out of the way, allowing you to be able to disconnect the plug boot from the front right plug and move it out of the way (that plug wire is very short). Without doing this, it was impossible to get your fingers in there to get the boot up and out of the way.

That right front plug is such a pain in the a$$ that it does not even pay to just "check and clean" plugs.

 

Repeat......You do not have to remove the airbox.

 

But you'll need to move it some for that right front plug unless you got snakes for fingers....

 

To remove or not to remove, that is the question. Lather rinse repeat. I want to remove as much shtuff as possible, needless or not.

 

dont remove, looosen it in the front and push it over to the left. I did it just yesterday

 

remember to pull from the boot, not the plug wire. no matter HOW tempting [/emoticons/emotion-6.gif] i used my shop vac and a crevis tool to SUCK anything that might be down at the plugs.

 

I wish I thought of cleaning prior to pulling the plugs, who knows what kind of nasties may have fallen in.