whats involved in cleaning fuel injectors???
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Going to Wal-Mart and buying a can of Castrol Fuel Injector cleaner. I think you can take them apart and clean them also. Sounds like a pain though. Fuel Injectors are complex and I would not trust myself to take one apart and put it back together correctly.
The easiest way is to go to your local auto parts store and buy a good quality gas treatment for your injectors. The best way is to have them proffesionally cleaned by an auto repair facility. They will tap into your fuel system and use a much higher quality cleaner than what you find at the local a/p store and the results will be much greater and worth the money you paid to have it done. May cost some where around $100.00 give or take depending on the area you live in.mat82284 said:
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It's actually not that bad. I'm too tired to explain it tonight though, I'll fudge it up. I'll post it tomorrow if anybodies interested. Time for bed, stangbear logging out...
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PRO50SC said:The injectors themselves are not made to be disassembled.
My mistake. I thought I saw they could be taken apart, just not by the average person. Good thing that advice was not taken.
I once watched one of those car repair DIY shows and they did a heavy duty injector cleaning. From what I remember they unhooked the fuel pump relay then ran the motor to bleed off the fuel in the fuel rails and then hooked up a spray can sized can to the schrader valve turned the can upside down then started the car and ran it until the can ran empty. It was supposed to do a much better job that the in tank stuff but be less expensive than taking it to a shop to have them cleaned. I would like to do this to my '89GT. My only question is do our fuel injection fuel rails have a schrader valve? I know some do and some don't.
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I actually had my mechanic to a injector cleaning process like pro50sc was talking about for like 50$. And for my 100+k mile stock injectors it made a huge difference. The weekend after that i took a long trip on the highway and got 27MPG. It was well worth the $$. The store bought stuff works alright too, but that is more preventative maintenance than anything else. Every time you change your oil spend the 2$ and throw some in.
See http://www.cleaninjectors.com/process.html
When you get doen with that, you'll need the seal kits...
Fuel injector seal kits with 2 O rings and a pintle cap (Borg-Warner P/N 274081) are available at Pep Boys auto parts. Cost is about $2.74 per kit. The pintle caps fit either injectors with a pin sticking out the injector end or 4 with more tiny holes in the injector end. The following are listed at the Borg-Warner site ( http://www.borg-warner.com ) as being resellers of Borg-Warner parts:
http://www.partsplus.com/ or http://www.autovalue.com/ or http://www.pepboys.com/ or http://www.federatedautoparts.com/
Most of the links above have store locators for find a store in your area.
When you get doen with that, you'll need the seal kits...
Fuel injector seal kits with 2 O rings and a pintle cap (Borg-Warner P/N 274081) are available at Pep Boys auto parts. Cost is about $2.74 per kit. The pintle caps fit either injectors with a pin sticking out the injector end or 4 with more tiny holes in the injector end. The following are listed at the Borg-Warner site ( http://www.borg-warner.com ) as being resellers of Borg-Warner parts:
http://www.partsplus.com/ or http://www.autovalue.com/ or http://www.pepboys.com/ or http://www.federatedautoparts.com/
Most of the links above have store locators for find a store in your area.
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