removing a coil. is there some secret?

[vw_85roccoZ400 at hotmail.com (Brian Spinney)]

Who needs coils mounted on the firewall anyway ;)

-Brian
85 Scirocco 8vT       01 Jetta 20vT       84 Rabbit GTI
86 Bronze Scirocco 8v
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: " David Brown " <sharpshooter33@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: removing a coil. is there some secret?


> Yeah, they're painful for me too, so don't feel bad. You likely have a
> longer back, in my case I'm stretching my vertebrae to the point where I
> feel it later, but my hands are small enough.
> What I've done is slack off the nut on the lower bolt, then completely
> remove the upper bolt/nut, and swing the thing around to access that lower
> fastener more easily. Getting some longer bolts may make the 
> reinstallation
> a bit easier. And if you're just swapping things around in coil-ville for 
> a
> while, cable tie the thing to the upper stress bar if you have one, hell,
> if it's just a test swap, leave the original one on the firewall while you
> test drive its replacement strapped onto the bar. I had two coils in Klaus
> for a while when I was trying to diagnose the "arschlaufen".
> Cathy
>
> On 11:49 pm 06/21/07 "David Brown" <sharpshooter33@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I don't know what it is about me and coils, but I have a heck of a
>> time getting them off. either I can't reach the other side of the screw
>> or a bolt that holds them to the firewall strips out.
>>
>> Anybody have a sure fire method or some other method of getting them
>> off?
>>
>> I didn't think my hands were that big, but I can't get them out.
>>
>> Thanks
>> David
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