It is doable as you watched on the videos. It's just that it is not easy, which is what everyone has been saying. Maybe the Camry is tighter, I don't know. But if you take the plenum and the upper intake manifold off, you will have more than enough room. Take the plenum off first, then the upper intake manifold. This assumes you have socket extensions and u-joints.

 

i changesd plugs and coils on a rx350 last month. Followed the instructions on another post on this site. It was straight forward. took a few hrs but if you take your time it is no problems. We took off the wiper cover and the plenium.

 

[QUOTE=tomr51;10669272]i changesd plugs and coils on a rx350 last month. Followed the instructions on another post on this site. It was straight forward. took a few hrs but if you take your time it is no problems. We took off the wiper cover and the plenium.[/QUOTE

yeah I think that’s the route I’m gonna go and take off the plenum and intake as well as the wiper cowl and wipers off and that part I will do first.

 

this is THE video to watch.

 

I cannot get the driver side wiper off for the life of me so I can get the cowl etc off so I can get access to the real coils/plugs. How do I get it off

 

loosen the nut a few turns. put lifting pressure on the wiper arm , and tap the nut (gently) with a hammer a couple of times

 

I just did the front 3 and this evening since they are easy as pie! But I’m not looking forward to those back 3. I think by the end of it I’m gonna need a couple drinks or something

 

just take your time. it is daunting, but not difficult.

 

I cannot get that $@::;: wiper arm to budge on the driver side! I even tried wd40 but no dice

 

rent a wiper arm removal tool from autozone

 

Thanks anyways; I was gonna do that but
they didn’t have any available to rent for some
reason. So I went down the street to a local chain where I get oil changes done at to hsve
them help. and it took them a good 20 minutes or
so banging on the thing with a sledgehammer sorts
tool and a metal rod of some sort. But they finally
got it off. The reason it wouldn’t come off for me
is it was press fitted to the shaft. but now I can get
it off easily. in fact I drove this morning without wipers attached.

 

Now on that note; what is the absolute best way to get
at that very difficult bolt to loosen. the one That holds the back of the manifold on

 

The only way I got those off was with a ratcheting wrench and a lot of touching and feeling the area (didn't take the wiper cowl off so I was going in blind basically). I think it's a 14mm bolt.

 

Yea see I’m actually gonna take the cowl and entire wiper assembly off.

 

I got to the point of the “bolts from hell” where I got the tb off, the filter housings off
and anything else; but got stopped Dead in my tracks at the 2 bolts behind the manifold. at that point I said screw it and buttoned everything back up. looks like I may havr
to bite the bullet and get a shop to do it and if I’m lucky;
they might only charge me for the one side since I already did the front ones
myself. Any thoughts?