Changing PT Cruiser Spark Plugs

Any suggestions or tips on removing the plenum?

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Don't drink more than one beer before you start. Be brave. Make sure you
have the right size socket tools and extensions . It does come apart and go
back together. There is a PT fan web site that actually posts a step by step
guide, but that is not all that essential. Be sure to pick up a set of dual
tipped plat plugs before you start so you don't have to do this again. Champ
has an OEM approved plug for this application. Again the PT web sits list
the proper part number. I got mine at NAPA. Don't know if they are
recommended in the turbo's. Again, the web sits are the best source for
information on this.

Richard.

Richard.

 

http://www.ptdiy.net/

Detailed instructions with pictures are on this site. I replaced mine with
dual tip platinum plugs with these instructions -- no problem at all.

RB

 

Not yet, anyway. Good thing you know how to do it -- you'll be swapping
those dual-tip platinum plugs out for proper ones before you know it.

DS

 

The procedure with pictures has been there for a long time, however you do
have to subscribe now to see the detailed intructions.

The double platnium plugs work great and have done so for almost 10,000
miles. They reduced the "stumbling" which seems to be a characteristic of
the non-turbo 5 speeds. So no, I won't be swapping them out for anything
but another set of the same plugs for as long as I own the car!

RB

 

I think hes trying to tell you that Champion has designated a different
platinum plug to use with the PT, I think it has a different heat range and
the electrode end is tapered/designed differently. Also, there is much
discussion about using a smaller gap, which is supposed to cure the
"stumbling". I had the original platinum plugs in and changed to the new
ones, along with 8.5 mm wires.
There are a couple of good threads about it on PTLinks.com and other
forums.
Good Luck;
SRG

 

Mostly I was trying to tell him that Bosch Platinum spark plugs are just
as shitty as Bosch Oxygen sensors.

 

Is it the same bosch which makes dishwashers because they seem to be pretty
good.

 

Bosch makes terrific dishwashers, very good power tools, excellent
starters and alternators, good and bad Oxygen sensors, poor spark
plugs, poor spark plug wires, and the usual mix of hits and misses that
one sees from virtually all large polyvalent corporations. If you're truly
judging spark plugs by the performance of a dishwasher, you are a very
intellectually-challenged individual. But then, you're the same dope who's
always making unsupported and unsupportable assertions based on your
little slivers of marginally-applicable experience, if even that, so I
shouldn't be surprised to see this latest inanity from you.

 

I see Dan you are working hard to keep your nice guy image. What a dorf.
You have no sense of humor whatsoever.

 

While you are on the subject, how are the Bosch washers and clothes
driers?

 

Never used 'em, don't know.

 

Mark the time; Dan's meds have kicked in.

 

I have a 2005 Pt Convertible GT Turbo with 35000 miles on it (about 20000 of which was from being towed). I am the second owner. Car started to idle a bit different so we checked the plugs and found number one a little loose and looking as if it had spark jump up the side from being loose. We replaced the plugs with the same. Noticed that number one was again a bit loose. I did some research and found that my car under hood says to use a LZTR5A - 13, RE14MCC5 plug - what we took out and put back in the car is a Champion or NGK (can't remember which) S3RE14MCC5 plug. I have been looking for hours and found mention that my car requires the "copper" plug and that the 13RE14MCC5 runs a little bit cooler than the S3RE14MCC5 plug. Is the fact the car has had a hotter plug in it going to be a big problem? Someone told me to put a drop of Loctite on the number one plug when installing and some kind of grease I can't remember what now. I have the gap set at .50 and was told it should be at .40 with the different plug. I am so confused. Is this thing with the plug vibrating loose going to be ahuge problem. Is there really that big of a difference in these plugs? Why do the books at the stores give you the wrong plug information?