Injector extractor

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Originally Posted by josh.huber

Use long bolts and start it!!

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Did that to get a pre combustion chamber plate off a tractor once - loosened the 3 nuts right off - cranked it and with a loud bang like a shotgun it shot off, stripping the nuts off the studs and shot through the side of the workshop- took me an hour to find it in the blackberry bushes. Had I been standing in the way I’m sure it would have killed me.

Fun times! [emoji16]

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Originally Posted by Homestar

Did that to get a pre combustion chamber plate off a tractor once - loosened the 3 nuts right off - cranked it and with a loud bang like a shotgun it shot off, stripping the nuts off the studs and shot through the side of the workshop- took me an hour to find it in the blackberry bushes. Had I been standing in the way I’m sure it would have killed me.

Fun times! [emoji16]

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I love this story!! Glad you got to tell the tale

It scared the absolute bejesus out of me - It was an old Massey 35x and the precombusion chamber covers were always getting some blowby no matter how much I tightened the nuts up so thought it would be an easy job to replace the copper gaskets to fix this. 2 of the 3 came off easily but one was stuck fast - I had no idea how much pressure a diesel builds up in its cylinders until that day. There is a small triangular hole to this day in the sheet of tin on the side of the workshop where it happened - sort of exactly the shape of the below item. [emoji16][emoji56]
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My first landy (300tdi disco)
Which died the graceful death of being parted out and finally taken to the dump

Wore a solid 15cm diameter ding in the bonnet from number two injector being ejected using a 2.5L crank driven compressor ... of course I layed a leather jacket over it to prevent disaster ...

I imagine without the jacket it would have shot through the bonnet and probably the roof above

Made a good bang !!!

If the injector is going in the bin it would be a good go to in my thoughts - maybe remove bonnet first and put up some goal posts down range

S

Thanks for all the thrilling yarns :) I picked up the factory tool today, so I'll try the more sedate method!

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Originally Posted by Airmech953

Thanks for all the thrilling yarns :) I picked up the factory tool today, so I'll try the more sedate method!

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Where’s your sense of adventure! [emoji38]

I'm with Rover rescue and the goal post idea!

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Originally Posted by Homestar

Where’s your sense of adventure! [emoji38]

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If he's self employed it's about 2 or 3 rungs below his risk assessment, which would be 'bang on'.

DL

So I used the official extractor - it broke on the first injector as I was tensioning it up and I was only using a 1/4 drive bar with an 8mm socket. I'll be talikng to the tool manufacturer tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by Airmech953

So I used the official extractor - it broke on the first injector as I was tensioning it up and I was only using a 1/4 drive bar with an 8mm socket. I'll be talikng to the tool manufacturer tomorrow.

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Sounds like it was made of the same metal they use for the V6 diesel cranks.