Hey I just did this yesterday....here is my story. Just hit 100k and went to the dealership to get an idea of what I was in for. I've built jeeps in my younger days, those days are over (i'm 54) so I was looking to have them do it. Spark switch alone was a grand. I'm not sure who said $300-500 bucks, but they wanted close to $300 just for the plugs. Any way I got the gearwrench, unpacked my old craftsman 3/8 pushbutton release and a bunch of extensions and went at it. It took me around 3 hours start to finish with alot of cursing, three pairs of neoprene gloves and a 6 pack of ipas as the carrot. The "wobbler" saved a ton of time and energy. I'm not sure how you could do this without it. Those who said one hour are full of it. There is no way you could do it in an hour unless you do it every day. Passenger side was easy except for the last one, but even that wasn't that bad. Driver side sucked. The brake drum wasn't the problem, I had a stiff wiring harness in the way on the last two. It took patience, but I got through it. I chewed up my hands on the passenger side gromets for the wiring harness. I would remove it or tape the crap out of it. On another note....as part of my 100k work, I got the top of the line thermostat. I snapped bolt number two right off without even pushing on it! Ugh Happy fathers day to me. I ran to harbor freight (sigh) and got a set of left handed drill bits($8.49). It took three minutes to remove the bolt......2.5 minutes to drink liquid courage and 30 seconds to drill enough that it came free. Note: I sprayed PB 3 times before I did it. I had a hell of a time removing what was left of the old thermostat gasket with several razor blades but finally it all synced up and I got the air out. Honestly it puurs like brand new and temps seems fine. Tach in the below one at idle and I can feel the quick start. My old plugs were rough, brown and corroded. I went with NGK iridiums from amazon, they were all gapped at .43 and not fake. My neighbor got fakes. NOT GOOD. All in all it cost $131.00 plus $2.95 in bandaids. Would I do it again? Yes. If a 54 year 6'4 260 lb guy can crawl around in a ram bay....so can you. I was gonna do the tranny fluid (transmission fluid) haha. But I need jack stands and all that- it makes sense to see if a local transmission shop can drop it for me? Dealer wants $8-900 I will revisit the coolant as on a sunday no mapar crap was available, I used the orange crap from autozone to get up and running. Thoughts on that?
