P38 Ignition Coil Hell

Can anyone offer some advice? I am trying to replace my ignition coils on my P38 4.6 (Thor Engine) but as the car has been converted to LPG I cannot get the coils and bracket attachment out from behind the engine, dismantled the whole lot before realising I could not get the things out.... (difficult enough to get at anyway....) The only thing that I can think of is to dismantle the coils from the bracket and see if i can get them out individually........Has any one else had this problem?:doh:

OK, Have given in and booked it into a garage.....£70......and bought some Magnecor leads to fit .....gotta be worth paying to get rid of the hassle...

Funny you should mention coils, whats wrong with the old packs?

Only just bought the car, and the parting shot before I left was "The coils will need replacing at the next service", i have bought a set and tried to replace, but could not get them from behind the engine due to LPG pipes, so have now booked it in to a garage..... The engine is starting to run a little rough (not too bad, but enough) and I am replacing the leads as well.....It looks like someone has already tried to remove the coils before as they are only being held on with one bolt.....

hoarec said:

Only just bought the car, and the parting shot before I left was "The coils will need replacing at the next service", i have bought a set and tried to replace, but could not get them from behind the engine due to LPG pipes, so have now booked it in to a garage..... The engine is starting to run a little rough (not too bad, but enough) and I am replacing the leads as well.....It looks like someone has already tried to remove the coils before as they are only being held on with one bolt.....

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If theres nothing wrong with the coil pack why change them?

The coils are starting to break down,

hoarec said:

The coils are starting to break down,

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Out of curiousity are you have problems with the running of the engine?

previously it was just the odd miss fire when accelerating hard, now it is noticably running a little rough, but besides that it's fine....

hoarec said:

previously it was just the odd miss fire when accelerating hard, now it is noticably running a little rough

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You changed the plugs n leads etc?

Leads are on order, will also replace the plugs at same time....

that sounds like the maf senser

hoarec said:

Leads are on order, will also replace the plugs at same time....

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Id put them on 1st before changing the coil packs.... apparently the coils hardley fail... cept on mine

I have heard the opposite, that these are prone to it!!!!! mines on the Thor engine not the Gems......if that makes any difference

Whats the MAF Sensor?

hoarec said:

I have heard the opposite, that these are prone to it!!!!! mines on the Thor engine not the Gems......if that makes any difference

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mines a gems so really dunno tbh

hoarec said:

Whats the MAF Sensor?

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Measure the amount of air flowing into the engine, if you need help with that sumone u'll be along to explain better than me... im a novice anurl

air flow senser easy to cheeck if you want start up get it warm. get somebody to keep revs up a bit and unplug it tis on your right on big pipe to air filter just pulls out

I had the thor 4.0 with motronics ecu and it would appear that they are much more adaptive and sensitve...hurrah for pickier technology.

Nick.

Fianlly....Got the gargae to replace the Coil. ( they broke it down into two and left the bracket behind the engine and put the new ones in one by one on the old bracket), car runs lovely now.......

j the range said:

that sounds like the maf senser

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Where is the MAF senser

It's on page 343 in RAVE !!!
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