Spark Plugs for Manual TRD OR, please help

Greetings,

My Taco is a TRD-OR Manual. I've been trying to follow the DIY guide on changing the spark plugs. I could change five plugs without much of a problem. But I'm seriously stuck on the last one on driver side - closest to the firewall - seems to give me two hours of thinking time already. There is a grey hard metal fitting above the coil, so I can't really pull the coil straight out, nor could I try bending it a bit. The intake manifold bracket seems to have the hard metal fitting (ABS line or clutch line?) that is attached to the bracket, so I can't move the bracket out of the way. Please see the picture. Is there something I'm really missing or can I somehow elbow that bracket out? Thank you kindly!

 

I have a TRD offroad with 6spd manual as well. That one sucks. If I remember right I faced the front of the truck with my right hip against the fender, stuffed my arm backawards in there a twisted as I removed it.

I had to remove the black bracket if front of your hand to the left with the two silver nuts, and the third nut if I remember right, I had to go in thru the wheel well.

Hope it helps. I did get it after removing the bracket.

 

I think I had to gently bend the metal tube line as well.

 

The short answer is yes, move stuff out of the way.

 

See if this video helps. I had to use a rachet with a couple of extensions going through the wheel well to get to some of the metal brackets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNyED_hSSKQ

 

The manual transmission truck has one addition metal clutch line on that bracket. It turns out that they can be loosen and bent a bit to push and clear the coil. So, @wrightme43 got that trick for me to get that moving. Now the last plug is done!