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Old 05-22-2013, 09:41 PM
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ahhhhhhhh....i figured out the problem. Your Ontario plates explain it all. You are Canadian and had a bunch of Canadians help you out. I am guessing you are from Mississauga.
lol too bad you couldn't figure out that it says my location at the top right corner of my post.
 
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Old 06-23-2013, 12:13 AM
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i just did spark plug change its a pain in the A** i manages to do it under and hour but my hands are beat up lol and i alos managed to swap cylinder 4 and 6 and it was misfiring bad so i retraced my steps and violaaa. my car now and a smooth idle . next is the freaking gas gauge issue i turned it own and after i fixed the connections and it was turned off had no gas lol.
 
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Old 06-23-2013, 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by michael454rs
i just did spark plug change its a pain in the A** i manages to do it under and hour but my hands are beat up lol and i alos managed to swap cylinder 4 and 6 and it was misfiring bad so i retraced my steps and violaaa. my car now and a smooth idle . next is the freaking gas gauge issue i turned it own and after i fixed the connections and it was turned off had no gas lol.
Yea I could see how you would accidentally swap those 2 cylinders. The way it's wired makes it appear like that's where the plugs plug into I almost messed up too haha. I've read that it's a very common mistake so you're not the only one.

Actually 1 mess up I forgot to mention was while doing the left side of the engine I accidentally disconnected the gas line and quite a bit of fuel went down into the engine compartment. I looked down to see where it had leaked onto and it was the exhaust pipe . So I grabbed a water bottle and showered the area. Then when I was done I did the ecu reset (which took a lot of tries) and then started it up and saw some smoke at first but that went away after a minute or two.
 
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Old 06-29-2013, 12:30 AM
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Thanks for the awesome write up ! I took my time and cleaned up the engine bay as I went, 2.5 hours later, my car is running butter smooth ! Very gratifying.
 
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Old 07-26-2013, 10:42 AM
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Use a spark plug socket. A regular socket will fit, but a spark plug socket will keep you from breaking the ceramic of the spark plug in addition to holding the plug in the socket.
 
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Old 07-26-2013, 02:51 PM
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Took me about 45 minutes to change the spark plugs. The passenger side had a lot of room to manuever around - easier than I had expected. 6th gear on the freeway feels peppier now.
 
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Old 10-03-2013, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by faiz23
ahhhhhhhh....i figured out the problem. Your Ontario plates explain it all. You are Canadian and had a bunch of Canadians help you out. I am guessing you are from Mississauga.
Lol but at least they didn't have a big gut in the way like the Americans have to deal with
 
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Old 10-06-2013, 11:38 PM
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Great write up, im at 60k miles when should you change the sparkplugs?
 
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Old 10-11-2013, 11:59 PM
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Hey, On the passenger side of the engine, right on the cylinder 1 there is a blue and black plugs attached to each other black one is connected to electrical harness, I can't take it off what's the trick of it?
 
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Old 10-12-2013, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by G_DiRTY5
Yea I could see how you would accidentally swap those 2 cylinders. The way it's wired makes it appear like that's where the plugs plug into I almost messed up too haha. I've read that it's a very common mistake so you're not the only one.

Actually 1 mess up I forgot to mention was while doing the left side of the engine I accidentally disconnected the gas line and quite a bit of fuel went down into the engine compartment. I looked down to see where it had leaked onto and it was the exhaust pipe . So I grabbed a water bottle and showered the area. Then when I was done I did the ecu reset (which took a lot of tries) and then started it up and saw some smoke at first but that went away after a minute or two.
Hey do you think we should reset the ecu once we installed the spark plugs? I have a Hypertech tune, if I reset the ecu do I need to program it again?
 
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Old 03-24-2014, 01:22 AM
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i changed out my plugs and threw a p0102 and p0113 and its misfiring like crazy. anyone have this problem as well? i had a tear in my intake tube but i taped that up and its still doing the same.
 

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Old 03-24-2014, 03:28 PM
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anyone help??
 
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Old 03-25-2014, 02:50 PM
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Did you get the coils connected back up properly?

Check this out - http://nissanhelp.com/diy/obd_codes/p0102.html
 

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Just curious if anyone's replaced the intake manifold seals/gaskets at the same time while replacing the spark plugs? My dealer said this is normally what they recommend.
 
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Old 04-19-2014, 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by eayala604
Just curious if anyone's replaced the intake manifold seals/gaskets at the same time while replacing the spark plugs? My dealer said this is normally what they recommend.
which dealer is this?
 


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