I'm hoping someone can help me cause I'm freakin out...
So I'm changing the passenger side spark plugs today, working on the third one, everything is going well. Put the spark plug back in, put the coil back on, go to tighten down the coil and I hear a SNAP. The bolt that holds the coil on had snapped! it snapped right below where I might be able to grab onto it with something like pliars, so I'm wondering, has this happened to anyone else and what did they do? Problem is its one of the back ones so I can't easily drill it out, just not sure what to do! Hope someone can help out! I'm freakin out!

 

Can you take a hole punch and kinda hammer it into it so it turns the correct way to reverse?

 

I dont think there is enough room for that.....

 

Get a Dremel high speed speed rotary grinder and insert a thin fiber grinding wheel, use the edge of the wheel to cut a screwdriver slot in the remaining broken stud, apply penetrating oil and use a screwdriver to back out the stud using the slot you just cut in the stud. It may not really matter if you cut into the surrounding metal as long as you get a good slot in the broken stud


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Bubbadewsky is a genius! I'd try what he says. I would never have thought of that. I love this board!

 

This really doesnt help you with you situation, but I really like your website...Nice Job......

 

I have heard that is fairly common and the screw really isnt needed to hold or remove the coil..I know several members who have broken several of those studs

 

well thats good to hear, kinda... I'm a bit nervous about just leaving it in there kinda floppin around, though I know it can't come all the way out as its held in somewhat by the fuel line... I tried epoxying the bolt (figured it should be no big deal, don't need to change em again for 100,000 miles (based on wear of the spark plugs at ~70,000 miles) but the epoxy didn't hold and I think I ended up epoxying the bolt to the coil, LOL.
Thanks for the tip on the dremel, I may yet do that, but it'll be when I'm feeling ambitous, since thats a lot of work to get to!