97ramsst

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Ok..so I have owned 6 LS1 cars and none's ever had enough miles to need a spark plug change...until now. I just bought a higher mile (120,000) 98 TA for the wife to drive and want to change the plugs and wires on it.

SO my simple question before I get started is does the little heat sheilds at the spark plug boot come off with the wires or does it stay on some how? If it stays how do you get it off. I thinking it should pull off with the wires but I just want to be sure. Also when I go back with MSD wires those sheilds are not used..right?

Thanks.

RealArmyMan

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It comes off

EVIL z28

I left the heat shields off when I put MSD wires on. If i remember right I dont think the heat shields even fit on the MSD wires.

snake charmer

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The heat shields slide up and down but come off as stated with the plug wires . I did not use the heat shieds on my MSD wires as I have read of the stock heat shields will burn into MSD wires over time .
BTW you might want to take the passenger side coil pack off to help make room to get to the last plug .

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where did you read that the heat shields will burn into the wires over time? I just installed my MSD wires and just slid the heat shields over them and they work fine...

davered00ss

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Comes off with the wires. I use the MSD wires and did not put the boots back on.

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I can't imagine it'd be absolutely necessary to reuse them but what is the harm in using them? I did a search and plenty of people reused them and have had no problems, either way i think will work.