Thread: tricks to remove stuck injectors ?

Originally Posted by Bulletman

Gday All

What tricks or otherwise have you used to remove stuck injectors.. i have managed to get 3 out easily , 1 not so , but i have 2 stuck and dont seem to be moving..

Cheers Bulletman

Slide hammer and smash the hell out of it. Mine took five minutes of belting. I bought super cheap slide hammer kit.

I used an old injector pipe and welded to the slide hammer attachment.

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

Slide hammer and smash the hell out of it. Mine took five minutes of belting. I bought super cheap slide hammer kit.

I used an old injector pipe and welded to the slide hammer attachment.

Mmm so does the electical connector come off the top of the injector somehow... ?

Cheers Bulletman

Originally Posted by Bulletman

Mmm so does the electical connector come off the top of the injector somehow... ?

Cheers Bulletman

???
I pulled it from the high pressure fuel connector.

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

???
I pulled it from the high pressure fuel connector.

But the 3L you’re pulling from the top, not the side.
(Yes, I can’t weld, but it held).

The D3 injectors connect on the side not the top like the 3L.

Cheers Bulletman

Originally Posted by Bulletman

The D3 injectors connect on the side not the top like the 3L.

Cheers Bulletman

It’ll still a slide hammer job, just has a different adapter. Look up the manual.

forget brute force! Use heat.

Had to on the ol mans Pug a while ago.
I set the car hanging from the rafters via a stuck injector, and until heat was provided, injector wasn't coming off.

Wheels weren't off the ground, but also not far off it tho. No way using slide hammer would have given as much force as the cars weight.

If you can get a heat gun onto it, IIRC took about 5 or so mins at max setting, and slowly the car eased itself down from its 'Ned Kelly position'

My brother's 3.6 TDV8 had a stuck injector, stuck because it had been leaking for quite some time then resealed itself with carbon. The LR tool for those injectors is a device that jack's up the injector by the retaining plate using 2 bolts so he made his own version. 6 hours later the injector was finally out.