Does anyone remember when you could change your own spark plugs in a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon?

Answer 1

Yes, and now it has come to the point where I cannot do ANYTHING in a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon any more.

Everything now takes at least three days and it is starting to piss me off. Change the cat's water bowl? Three days.

Answer 2

Yep.

I remember the early Trans Am 454's where you practically had to drop the engine to replace the plugs.

I remember the '73 RS LT Z28 with the LT1 in it. Depending on the headers you put on you would have to disconnect those to get at at least one plug on each side.

I can change 3 of the six plugs in my 2000 Taurus. Changing the other 3 means basically disassembling the entire intake manifold/fuel rail assembly.

On my 85 Corvette junk it's pretty easy to change all the plugs. The big plus there is that you can sit on the front tire while you do it.

Answer 3

My first car was a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 4 Door Coupe... 283, with three on the tree...... when you opened the hood there was so much excess space in the engine compartment that you could literally get in there....the engine was laughably small compared to the rest of the car... the backseat was like a living room couch and the gap between the back and front seats was huge....i could load a full size steamer trunk into the cars trunk....GREAT MAKEOUT CAR, and yeah you could do almost everything mechanical yourself under a shade tree....what i find more interesting is that people used to make their own cars from scratch... technology advances so rapidly.... you don't really see people knocking out one off versions of televisions, you know......

Answer 4

It takes "Couple of hours to change Spark plugs?????

I own a 1979 Chevy truck, 350 Engine
a 1995 VW Jetta, and 1985 VW GTI........

Changing plugs takes "Less than one hour"..

Answer 5

a complete tuneup in a couple hours or less.
Flat head engines that got an easy thirty miles per gallon of gas which cost 25¢,
low torque so you almost never skidded on ice unless you deliberately tried,
and well-built cars that didn't fly into a million pieces in a fender-bender.
and some idiot calls you an old man and says to go away!

Answer 6

Yes and we could all modify our engines and add a 4 barrel carb and lots of things. Now they get almost all they can out of the engines because they are already small and hight performance. Now it is just change the chip in the computer. Of course if you can find them, you can still change the plugs yourself.

Answer 7

A couple of hours??????

I can do a full service, including the spark plugs;
fuel, air & oil filters;
change out the oil;
refill the washer bottles
in under three hours.......

Answer 8

I personally have never changed spark plugs, but i know kind of what you mean. In my car it is extremely hard to change the battery and they used to be so simple. YOu have to change it from under neath and it takes like .... hours and hours!

Answer 9

No, sorry, but then I dont have a W12 Bentley Continental, the old V8 takes 30 minutes tops and my classic Mini 5 minutes.

Answer 10

A couple of hours??? Are you retarded or just slow? That's a 1/2 job even NOW

Oh wait I figured it out, you would change 1 plug, then drink two beers, then another plug and then three beers, and so on