Hey all - trying to get the ignition coil off my 95 (motor's from a 97) 4.0 to do Cruiser's cleaning trick - but man, HOW do you get that stupid left bolt off?? Hard to see in this pick but that bracket is 100% in the way of getting a socket on there, and even though I can get a wrench on it, I can't hardly turn it. I'm sure someone else has figured this out!



Thanks a lot!

 

I used a wrench on those bolts. The open end. Had to flip the wrench over a couple times (the same end) to get a good bite and better swing, and dropped it a couple times, but i got it, eventually. Or you can remove the entire bracket from the block. Just keep an eye on those wires. My 97 had nuts on the backside of that bracket. All i remember is they were not fun.

 

use a ratchet spanner take the bracket off you can then clean the ground wires while you have the coil off its not too hard a bit tight though

 

Thanks for the good ideas, all - turns out while I had the distributor out it was pretty easy to get to those bolts. What I didn't realize is there were nuts behind them - seems like the way to do it would be to take the whole bracket off. Fortunately I was able to fix my problem without messing with the ignition coil this time! Thanks for the good ideas though.