How the f do i get the fuel injector clips off!!!!!!!

[tjh1127]

I'm gonna flip out. I hate this shit. I don't want to take off the intake because that sucks even worse but I could only get off 2 of the clips but I just cannot get the others off the damn injectors to pull the rail. What. Do. I. Do. There is not a single solid wrote up on this anywhere.


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[reelizmpro]

with very small flathead screwdrivers?

[tjh1127]

I hate this job more than Donald trump. All clips are off and I am literally just put all of y muscle into trying to pull the rail/injectors and they just don't buds.


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[BaltimoreBimmer]

better pull harder until it breaks! But in all seriousness. I decided not to mess with mine just yet because of the same issue

[tjh1127]

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[E30DriftMissile]

Holy shit [emoji23] so what did the trick?


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[tjh1127]

Cursing and pulling on it.


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[tjh1127]

Actually what I did was grabbed my biggest ratchet and longest extension and used it as a long lever and it popped right off. Turns out you don't need to take the clips off just to pop the fuckers from the sockets I was losing my mind


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[Steve Corbett]

Make sure you have all the pintle caps. Sometimes one or two stay in the manifold.

[tjh1127]

How the f do i get the fuel injector clips off!!!!!!!

Idk I fucked something up the fuel rail is leaking fuel all over today I give up im just taking it in


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[jeffnhiscars]

Those are the nastiest injectors Ive ever seen. I'm guessing it ran like shit if it even ran.

I suspect your combustion chambers look the same. I'd do compression and leak down tests, a whole bunch of maintenance and hope i don't need to pull the head.

[tjh1127]

Those are the nastiest injectors Ive ever seen. I'm guessing it ran like shit if it even ran.

I suspect your combustion chambers look the same. I'd do compression and leak down tests, a whole bunch of maintenance and hope i don't need to pull the head.

The head was just pulled by the last owner and a valve job done when the timing belt went. It ran fine just idled rough when cold


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[jeffnhiscars]

if your combustion chambers look remotely,like those injectors you won't have a choice. The hot spots that can result from that kind of build up can cause catastrophic damage including burning a hole in a piston...notwithstanding that it will never run right.

[E30 Wagen]

if your combustion chambers look remotely,like those injectors you won't have a choice. The hot spots that can result from that kind of build up can cause catastrophic damage including burning a hole in a piston...notwithstanding that it will never run right.

Couldn't you just run some injector cleaner and some seafoam through the engine first, hit the freeway at 4000rpm for a few miles to try and burn away any build up? I've also heard of mixing a quart of atf in a full tank of gas can help clean out the injectors since atf has so much detergent.

[tjh1127]

Two of the injectors are leaking at the rail. I've taken it apart twice and reassembled it and they are still fucking leaking. Wtf!?


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