seems that two clips hold the coil in place, one on each side. the clips are riveted in, not screwed or anything. how do you remove the stock coil, and how do you replace it?

thanks

 

you have to use a chisel to get the rivets off.

 

a chisel or I used a drill and bit. Not easy at all.

 

It takes like 2 minutes. It's easier if you pull the whole bracket off the engine though.

 

i could have figured that much, but then how do you put the new one on??? i have no rivet gun, and may consider remote mounting it later, but right now i just want the car running. i have seen mounting kits that use screws....is this what you use after cutting off the old rivits?

 

Every coil i've installed comes with a couple bolts/nuts to replace the rivets.

 

I'll second that. If it didnt, go to a hardware store with coil in hand. Find the largest bolt system that fits in the holes with nylon locking nuts on the other end.

Will need 2 log ones, 2 short ones, 4 nuts.

 

its a real pain in the ***.
I just took mine intothe shop before i fu(ked it up more

 

i smacked my old dead one with a bigass hammer . It was dead anyway.came right out.

 

dremel + cut off wheel.. carefully nuked the rived head, then tapped out rivet with a punch. Should take less than 5 minutes with the bracket out of the car, no matter which way you go about it.

 

Its real hard to do when installed. It hard enough getting your finger on everything to bolt it down right at all 4 corners. No room and lots of crap in the way. I only messed with it once and moved it to my cowl.

 

ok thanks for the help guys. i used a dremel on the top two...then realized the bottom two went straight through the coil, and had to be removed also! i just used a screwdriver and a hammer for those, no problem.


soooo, i know you guys recommend mounting it somewhere cooler, maybe on the firewall. well the bolts that came with my new coil use nuts to hold the back. what did you guys use to mount on the firewall, with no access to the backside? sheet metal screws??

thanks, evan

 

This is what I did... my stock coil was still good when I upgraded, so I left it in as a "spare" in case my car died on the road. This way I could plug the original coil back in, and if the car started, I'd know it was my coil.

 

By the way, that bracket I made (from 1/8th inch steel "strip stock" from Home Depot's hardware aisle) doesn't actually bolt to the heater/evaporator box. There's a little cross-brace that I sandwiched in there (by removing the top of the heater/evap box, putting the assembled bracket's "T" in, and screwing the top of the box back down). Here's a quickpik-