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Dylan Corbett Jul 23, 2025 11:17 AM

Injectors spraying out of the top out of no where.
 
I was driving home from work yesterday and started smelling diesel while on the highway. When I made it to a light the truck started shaking violently like there was a cylinder or two not firing. When I got home and opened the hood the injectors were squirting diesel out of the top. Anyone know how to fix this cheaply and efficiently?

1993 dodge D350 5.9 cummins

u2slow Jul 23, 2025 12:30 PM

Replace those injectors.

My injector failures have typically been during long summer highway drives. Either leaking out the top, or constant grey smoke.

Mexstan Jul 24, 2025 09:41 AM

You did not provide your truck details.
On the early (2003 and up) Cummins it was quite common to have one or more injector lines split, mostly #4 & 6. The fix was to add an extra support bracket to stop vibration.
Warning: DO NOT put your hand near the leak if the engine is running. The high pressure diesel leak can easily penetrate the skin leading to blood poisoning

Dylan Corbett Jul 25, 2025 01:58 PM


Originally Posted by u2slow (Post 3393071)
Replace those injectors.

My injector failures have typically been during long summer highway drives. Either leaking out the top, or constant grey smoke.

Okay, is there any other ideas before I get to the injector replacement? I am not getting payed too much being in the military 😅

u2slow Jul 25, 2025 03:38 PM


Originally Posted by Dylan Corbett (Post 3393081)
Okay, is there any other ideas before I get to the injector replacement? I am not getting payed too much being in the military 😅

You can take the leaking injectors out and carefully disassemble/clean/reassemble.... whereupon they may still leak. Or you can just replace the leaking ones with new. They are not *that* expensive



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