Injectors

[88_GT_5_oh]

i cracked 2 stock injectors earlier this month (they were in a bag and i dropped a heavy object on the bag ) now i'm short 2 injectors, so i want to go to the junkyard and grab 2 new ones off another car so i have a set. what other vehicles have the same injectors (19 lb) with the same connector?...... 5.0, crown vic or f150? how can i tell if they're the same?

 

[giddyup306]

I assume you just broke the pintle caps. You can replace them for $5 for both inj inc o-rings and plastic washers.

 

[88_GT_5_oh]

pintle caps are the part that spray's the gas right?............. if so where do i get these?, cause ya thats what i cracked

 

[giddyup306]

No the pintle sprays the gas. The cap is the plastic piece on the end. I get them at NAPA. They call them "seal kits". Sorry I have no p/n handy.

 

[88_GT_5_oh]

just to clearify you mean this right

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[giddyup306]

Yup. Before installing them let them sit in boiling watter for a few mins. This will soften them up. If not they break.

 

[HISSIN50]

the pintle caps help to atomize the fuel in regard to improving the spray pattern.

 

[88_GT_5_oh]

cool thanks man.... i'll have to take a trip down to napa tommorow..... if only it wasn't on the exact other side of the city from me ......

 

[jrichker]

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 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.

Use motor oil on the O rings when you re-assemble them & everything will slide into place. The gasoline will wash away any excess oil that gets in the wrong places and it will burn up in the combustion chamber.

 

[88_GT_5_oh]

i always heard petrolium jelly is what you should use, for the o rings

 

[88_GT_5_oh]

so after runnign around the city, looking for these things (4 hours, I don't like to give up) with every place i went to sending me somewhere else.... even napa said they don't stock them and said i would be better off getting them in town, istead of them trying to get them out of the states (thanks napa ) i ended up at a transmission place (ya thats right a tranny place) turns out the they are a fuel injection place as well, i had no idea of this (BTW thanks Motions Performance in Winnipeg for tipping me off to go there )

so i go there and they are $2.50 a pop CDN, i picked up 2 for the cracked ones.

how exactly do i get these on without cracking them? and how do i get the old cracked ones off with out damaging the injector?

 

[jrichker]

Snap on, snap off..
Personally, I never worried about the old ones when I had replacement parts in hand. I pried them off with whatever was handy.

FYI, the only thing the pintle caps really do is to keep the O ring from sliding off the injector.

A tip from one of Giddyup306 other posts

"A word of wisdom is put the pintle caps in boiling watter for a few minutes to soften them up. This virtually iliminates all breakage. "

Sounds like a good idea to me.

 

[gregpro50]

I just changed all eight on mine. The boiling them in water trick is the way to go.