whats the best way to clean injectors?

[rapieper at yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

Try this first:

-Remove boot over air flow plate
-Raise plate with magnet or fingers.
-Pull an injector, point into a coffee can
-Jumper the fuel pump
-Raise the plate

Do for each injector - check for leakers, dribblers, and squirters (you want sprayers).

HAVE A FIRE EXTINGUISHER READY and use your head.

Lots of folks are bound to have spare injectors, so don't buy any yet!

Ron



--- calimus <calimus@techography.net> wrote:
> I'm fairly positive that my wifes cabby is having some injector issues as
> we've checked just about everything else (timing, plugs, coil, wires).  The
> current thinking now is that it's an injector thats barely spraying as there
> seems to be a miss at idle that stays all the way through the rpm range.
> We've had to richen the piss outta the mixture in order to keep the car
> running and it won't push over 80mph in 5th.  The car reaches 4k rpm and
> won't go any further.  So all we can figure is that it's a fuel problem at
> this point.  I have a spare set of injectors, but they have been sitting for
> 8 months and I figure it might be a good idea to clean them.
> 
> Now I know that they can not be back flowed to clean so I was thinking of
> letting them soak in injector cleaner for a few hours.  I have new O-rings
> to put on them as well.  I don't have what would be needed to setup a
> pressure cleaning system for them so will the soaking methood work or is
> there another way that I haven't thought of that will do the job?
> 
> Thanks,
> William Snyder
> 
> 88' Scirocco 16v
> 89' Cabriolet 8v
> 71' Karmann Ghia
> 
> 
> 
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