Broke 5 of my Taylor wires taking the bastards off today
12-21-2005, 06:11 PM
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Broke 5 of my Taylor wires taking the bastards off today Thats it, I'm just pissed. They all broke with the lead staying on the spark plug. Good thing I kept my stock wires, which seem to run exactly the same as the friggin Taylors 
12-21-2005, 06:26 PM
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How many times have you removed your Taylor's since the original install? I've only removed mine once since I put them on and they came out just fine. I had been reading these complaints about the Taylors so I was extra careful- but I wouldn't buy them again.
12-21-2005, 07:26 PM
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Damn, I must have gotten lucky. I'm always ripping mine off to pull plugs and I havn't had any issues. I believe that they are 3 years old now. Guess I'll have to be more careful.
12-21-2005, 07:27 PM
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Happened to me too with my 409's. I only broke two of them. Do your best to pull on the boot, not the wire, and they will last a little longer. I had only removed mine twice before(they broke the third time removing them, about 8k miles on them). Now I have the Thundervolts.
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12-21-2005, 07:50 PM
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I worked at a speed shop for 4 years that sold Taylors mostly and I never seen any problems with them or the ones I had(although I have seen a few over head cam plug wires that wouldnt stay plugged in but I replaced em with no problems). Pulling on the boot is the only way your supposed to remove them although sometimes hard to get to I will admit lol. I have seen some of the threads and most problems that I have seen on here is were they pull on the wire. Its another one of those things were you run the brands that you have the best luck with.
12-21-2005, 08:20 PM
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I didn't only pull on the boot, I used a set a dykes to actually pull them off like a boot puller would do, they broke anyway. Leaving the lead on the tip of the plug. Mine were the Thunderbolt 50, 10.4 mm. I figured **** the other 3 wires since I'd need a new set anyway so I just grabbed the wire itself (not even the boots) and just yanked them off, those 3 came off perfectly fine and quite easy.
The easy ones were the front 3 on the drivers side, the coolest of the 8 anyway. Maybe the heat from my LT's??????
After just taking about a 30 mile joyride on I-95 (see-moked a turbo Eclipse with a fartpipe
) and the car runs better, just too perfect....stock wires are just fine, no need to waste money on aftermarket wires.
The easy ones were the front 3 on the drivers side, the coolest of the 8 anyway. Maybe the heat from my LT's??????
After just taking about a 30 mile joyride on I-95 (see-moked a turbo Eclipse with a fartpipe
) and the car runs better, just too perfect....stock wires are just fine, no need to waste money on aftermarket wires. Last edited by Quickin; 12-21-2005 at 08:45 PM.
12-21-2005, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Bo White
Yeah, the stock GM wires work just fine IMO. Thats whats on my car, although they have 118k miles on em lol. Still going.......
12-21-2005, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by 00SS4780
Here is a pic of my 409!
12-21-2005, 09:37 PM
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Yep just like mine! The car wasn't running good so I thought I might have foulded a plug or two. I go to grab that one and it was broke on the plug. The plug was jet black and dripping of gas! Not sure when it had broken. I might have broken it puttin back on the last time. I put MSD's back on mine.
12-21-2005, 09:44 PM
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It's like your car slappin ya in the face when the sum-bitch breaks off in your hand. I'm not gonna polish the bitch until next year now. Oh, thats just over a week away. The car always wins.
