How do I remove & replace an ignition coil?

[VehiGAZ]

Good advice Steve - The screws were in fact very tight, and I stripped one a litle before switching to the socket.

JGeorge - as it turns out, my situation was quite similar. I pulled the original coil pack, dried things up a bit, and installed the new one. It was still stuttering and sputtering for the first couple of minutes, but then it settled back down to normal and drove home just fine. I don't think the problem was the coil - I think it was just moisture in the well.

I will try to swap the original back in and see what happens. It would be nice to have the original red coil back in there instead of the black Delco coil. :-)

Thanks again everyone!

[Kenny]

Long story short, I too had the coil misfire code non stop on Cyl. #2 from Moab to Denver. Kept clearing it with the Scangauge. Got to Denver, bought a new coil from NAPA for emergency use. Instead of putting in the new coil I swapped #1 and #2 to see if the problem followed the old coil. After the swap with a bit of cleaning, haven't seen a misfire code since then (over a year).

I agree, clean up the contacts before installing a new coil.

cheers.

[rowhard]

Yea, it would be better to use a socket, espically if the bonehead before over torqued them