Gauges and injectors came in yesterday. Installed the gauges, started on the injectors and I can't get them to even budge.

Whats the trick here? I used the air plenum bolt method described in a guide I found on here and they wont lift out.

Realized I might bend one of those bolts so I went down to the hardware store and bought a couple more, ripped the head off one and still no luck

2001 24v

 

Have you loosened the injector line hold-downs, the injector cross-tube nuts on the driver's side of the cylinder head and pulled the fuel cross-tubes back while popping the injectors out? Did you remove the injector hold-down bars?

Rusty

 

if you slightly loosen the injector hold down tubes and pull them away from the the injector a little the injector should come out liek butter..........if its hard to take them out your doing it wrong.........all the cummins i pulled injectors would come out so easy when you took off the tubes....

 

http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/~tibor...structions.pdf

Just in case you didn't have good instructions.

 

Thanks Mike I already had good instructions


What goods a guide if you don't read it huh?

Injectors are in now

 

And the problem was..... (C'mon - remember, confession is good for the soul! )

Seriously, if you'll post how the problem was resolved, the solution can help someone else who is reading these forums.

Rusty

 

It was the fuel tubes.

 

well get er bled and fired up and give us an update. pics smoke ya know.... this forum feels it is worthless without pics........

 

I haven't taken any pics of it yet. Owned it for about 2 weeks and it's still on
auto trader

Definitely saw a nice improvement in power. Not sure about peak numbers but it certainly felt like it leveled out the power curve, turbo spools up alot faster and the bottom end is a hell of alot stronger. No problems breaking the tires loose now even with the LSD.

Haven't noticed anymore smoke then normal, a little black poof at start up but it did that before I put in the injectors.

It did take about 3 cycles to get it started up for the first time, lots of smoke then and it sounded like a cammed v8 for the first couple of minutes at idle

After driving it around all day, it seems smoother then before and even a little quiter. Like them so far.

Bosch 275/300 I got off ebay for $280

Haven't decided on which exhaust to get yet, probably just a 4" and the sneaker series muffler from source automotive. Intake will be a bhaf and homemade intake tube and I'll probably leave the truck alone after that. Will need to save up for some tranny mods before I get to crazy

 

Hope you have a pyro guage so you don't melt a piston.