forester01 Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Can anyone provide any tips and hints regarding changing the plugs in the car? Auto trans. I bought plugs and plug seals. I have no manuals for the car whatsoever. Any tricks of the trade for this job? removing wheel wells or anything like that? How difficult is the job for a semi experienced mechanically inclined person? I've worked on many cars but never on the Suby. It has 83K and the plugs were changed once by the dealer during the 30K or so super-expensive checkup. Should I also be changing tranny fluid or leave that to the dealer? I'll be changing air and fuel filters too, but they look easy. Time to get dirty on the wife's pride and joy. Advice greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Fairly easy job if you take out the stuff in the way first. There have been several posts on this incuding my post on my 99 Forester. Do a search here. This is one of the easy ones, just pity the poor folks with the phase 1 engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickb21 Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Like cookie said; the plugs on the SOHC are pretty easy. You'll want to pull the plastic intake from the pass side, and the washer tank from the driver side. Word of caution; be careful to not cross-thread or over torque the plugs. Consensus is to use NGK plugs, your Sube will be happier. If you want to flush all of the AT fluid it's a bit tricky. But you can probably drain and refill and get 60% or so of the fluid replaced. Maybe more if you take off the filter. The external filter is supposedly a "lifetime" item.. but depending on fluid condition it may be worthwhile to replace. Plenty of threads on these though, good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forester01 Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 Thanks All. Will do some extensive poking around today. No more dealership service. They charged me near 700.00 for the 30~40K checkup (included Rotors and pads up front --- at 40K !!!). Anyway, coming up on 85K now so I'll do this crap myself. I just finished a full rotor/caliper job on my old Mazda, same on an old Mercedes diesel and the bill for both was under 300.00. The Suby timing belt will be next summer at about 100K. I didn't like the car much when we first got it, but after virtually no problems for 60K miles it's starting to grow on me. Thanks for the advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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