Ignition plate questions.

[Gatt9]

Hey all,

I've been defeated. It was no huge surprise, the bolts on the third coil pack(Which has 97k miles on it) are frozen. It's too tight in there for me to get alot on it, and all I'm doing is striping the head on the bolt. So, the ignition plate is coming out so I can get at it. 3 questions.

1. I see two bolts on the manifold side and 1 bolt on the bracket towards the front. Are these all the bolts?

2. The wiring harness on back, does it just pull out like a cable on a computer? Never pulled a wiring harness for an ignition before and I'd imagine it'd be an extremely expensive thing to break.

3. Anyone happen to know the length on the bolts that keep the coil packs on? These things are looking pretty bad, rust and heads are wearing, I'd like to just replace them when I do this.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Oops! It's a 98 firebird.

[RadRacer]

Re: Ignition plate questions.

2 bolts on the back of the intake manifold, and one bolt on the driver's side of the manifold. The wiring harness does have a bolt holding it into the ICM. It's either 8mm or 10mm, IIRC (believe it's 8mm). Don't know the length :(. BTW, you could just take the ICM and packs off that bracket. Not too sure how many bolts there are, but from what I can tell on my 97 Camaro, there's 2 studs coming from that bracket that nuts go on that holds the ICM and coils in place. May just be easier to get them off then the whole bracket.