I'm happy to report that last night after getting the proper tools I was able to not only finish the plugs and connectors but I sucked out the oil and changed the oil filter as well. I even dropped in a K&N filter. Car runs really great now but it never ran bad.

This was my first DIY on this car besides the evaporator swapp which was no big deal. I had one major scare removing the driver side deepest most plug as I thought I shattered it. I came back in the house and read all of the horror stories about members having to take the heads out and take it to a machine shop to fix. I prayed and went back outside to figure it out and when I stuck the needle nose pliers down the hole to get what I thought was part of a plug the whole thing came out and was intact. Whoever put that plug in must have cross threaded it as it was barely in.

Whey! I am one happy camper.

Cheers!
Tommy
1997 E420