Thread: Injector extractor

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!

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.

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!

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!

Where’s your sense of adventure!

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

Originally Posted by Homestar

Where’s your sense of adventure!

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.