Cleaning injectors

[rapieper@yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

I have had limited success correcting injectors that squirt or leak. 
If you can manage with two hands, while the injector is spraying, take
the tip of an ice pick/dental pick/o-ring tool and run it around the
tip of the injector (the pintle?).  On some injectors, it will dislodge
whatever dirt is causing the leak and allow it to work properly.  

Of course, if your injector is that bad, it's trash anyway, so it's a
zero-loss, maybe-save-you-$30 situation.

HTH

Ron

--- peter <peter@thescirocco.com> wrote:
> That's a great tip, Earl!
> 
> I just tried that on the injectors on my GTI, the red tube fits
> snugly
> enough, that it seals it so that it all sprays through the injector
> nozzle. 
> Note: it seals so well, that you have to be careful when you
> disconnect
> it.
> 
> The spray pattern on mine was pretty bad, and the sputtering
> replicates
> how the car runs.
> 
> I'm going to swap in the injectors from the '84 Scirocco.
> 
> I'm looking for a cheap set of new injectors any suggestions...
> 
> Someone e-mailed me a few weeks ago with a source, it is lost in a
> sea
> of e-mails - please send it again.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Peter - Bear Delaware 19701
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of earl nordrum
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 8:32 AM
> To: vwscir88@hotmail.com; scirocco16v_1986@yahoo.com
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Cleaning injectors
> 
> 
> The way I cleaned mine in the past was with brake cleaner.  Sounds
> funny
> but 
> it worked great.  If you spray the cleaner through the injector with
> the
> 
> "red straw" the cleaner comes with you'll see the difference.  After
> a
> few 
> seconds of spraying you'll see a nice atomized even spray pattern
> come
> from 
> the injector.  I used brake cleaner because it dries fast and won't
> harm
> the 
> injector.  Just my personal experience.
> 
> -Earl
> 
> 
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