3.4l engine issue/question

[Seanz0rz]

http://www.ultimateyota.com/index.ph...18182#msg18182

does that sound familiar? plugs and wires fixed it i guess. its never happened since.

[fenrisx]

Sounds very familiar... getting worse by the day. If this gas treatment doesn't do the trick in the next day or two I guess I'll start looking into checking the plugs... that I don't have money for.

[Seanz0rz]

the plugs arent that expensive, IIRC they were about 3 dollars a piece from the dealer, and come correctly gapped. just make sure they are either desno or ngk dual electrode. dont need anything fancy at all.

for wires, i went with the ngk set from sparkplugs.com. when i bought them over 3 years ago, they were $35. not sure what they are now. maybe a set from autozone would do?

yeah i know 80 bucks is alot to drop on it, hopefully that fixes the issue.

[Crinale]

damn i wish that stuff was the cheap for my bmw! >.< i just bought plugs for 2.66 plus shipping online (came to about $25), and the wires off ebay for $75... from the local O'reileys it was gonna be 5.99 per plug and $114 for the wires, and thats for Bosch crap! (i bough NGK plugs and wires :thumbup)

[fenrisx]

Yeah... I've got a few things I could throw on eBay and get enough to buy the parts. I've never changed plugs/wires.. but it seems to be rather simple/straight forward.. I just wish this had happened two weeks ago when the weather was still 60-70.. and not snowing / high in the lower 30s like it is as of a few days ago! Oh well, lol.

Maybe I'll give the dealer a call tomorrow and see what they're charging for plugs / wires. AutoZone has a wire set for $35.99 which I guess isn't that bad. I'll still look at a few places online first. They also want 6.99$/each for plugs (Autolite brand), but I'd rather just get factory plugs.. Denso or NGK.

[Seanz0rz]

IMHO, denso or ngk plugs are a must, anything else and the job isnt worth doing, especially from everything i have ever read on the subject. to me, plug wires are plug wires... this isnt some super fancy double spark ignition. the dealer will want a couple hundred.

[YotaFun]

Do stick with Denso, we had a 4Runner come in with a bad mis, they had Autolite plugs and Bosch wires.....

Plugs are usually around $25-30 from the dealer, wires around $75

[fenrisx]

I'm pretty confident I'll be buying the plugs from the dealers.. I found a set of NGK TE-66 wires on Amazon for $26.99, or the Denso (#671-6182) for $23.71 (on sale, usually 29.99).

Over the past few months the 4Runner hasn't started like it used to.. I kinda though maybe the plugs were getting old. I guess now I'll find out if the Runner starts up like it used to when I bought it a few years ago.

[fenrisx]

Well, the light came on today on the way to class, and stayed on. Tomorrow I'll def. be going back to AutoZone.

[Bob98SR5]

in all the years i've read about these types of issues, stick with stock plugs and wires. i can't give you a technical reason, only 9 years of anecdotal success stories.