so i was cruising my way to work today just had filled up with gas everything normal.....i hit the highway and get to thrird gear my car stutters and jerks and the SES light comes on begining to flash. I pulled to the side of the road hoped out to check. No sounds no smells no nothing..... went over to my folks house called work telling them i probably wont be making it today took it down to pep boys to have the code read.(21.45$) it came back P0304 which is a misfire in cylender #4....my car just crossed the 40k mile mark so i was like okay its a sparkplug....nothing huge so i went and bought a set of 6 expensive plugs(35.70$) gaped em and got ready to put em in.....well with the car up on rhino ramps laying on my back for two hours just trying to find #4 and curseing at the top of my lungs scareing the littlekids in the gernal area i had to give up.....#4 should be the first plug on the passenger side correct? well i found that but threading my big *** arm through the control arm and pulleys and belts to get to that thing is like well like getting ron jeremy through the eye of needle frankly....is there some trick im missing or somthing here i really dont wanna fork up the 100 bucks just to have to have some kid do it in 20 mins little help here guys?

 

Which do you have, 3.4 or 3.8?
If you're trying to isolate just the #4 cylinder on a 3.4 v6, you're on the wrong side.
Driver side front to back, 2-4-6.
Passenger side front to back, 1-3-5.
http://autorepair.about.com/library/...bl-fo-6417.htm

The 3.8 is:
Drivers side, 1-3-5.
Passenger side, 2-4-6.
http://autorepair.about.com/library/...bl-fo-5810.htm

 

i have a 3.8 im on the right side i just cant humanly see how one would get a good look at much less a wrench on that area

 

try from top.

 

cylinder number goes from one side to the other, left to right or right to left depending on the motor, not up one side down the other.

 

I'm not sure where it's at, but I can change all of my driver side plugs from up top, and the front one on the pass. side from up top. The back two I can get at from the bottom. Do you have headers by any chance? If not, they REALLY open it up in there, makes a plug change much easier.

 

he doesnt have them yet.

but cyl 4 HAS to be one of the middle cylinders like everyone is saying. good luck. hopefully it isnt anything too major

 

get rid of the G.D heat shields on your manifolds. Then you can better see whay u r doing. #4..being the first one...LO Fn L!!!!!!

 

so basically after talking to a whole load of people the generalconsenise was dont even F with it if you have the stock headers. so i was like "well its a pain in the **** to do plugs or wires with the stock headers and i have headers on order should be here in a day or two. it might be the ignitioncoil." so after a few burns and some beat up knuckles and one socket which i droped which i dontthink ill ever see again lol.....new coil went in fixed the probelm dead on....runs like the champ shes aways been [sm=bounceybounce.gif]