Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:24:04 -0500
Reply-To: Karin Baker & Raymond Paquette <raymondpaquette@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Karin Baker & Raymond Paquette <raymondpaquette@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: fuel injector hoses, replacing
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Anybody know of a place near Northampton MA to have injectors
tested/cleaned?
Or should I ship them off? Chris, what's the contact info for your place,
since you recommend it so highly?
Not really in much of a hurry.
Raymond
On 12/8/07, Chris Lisica <wavanagon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just did this last week using a carpenters retractable blade. Nothing
> fancy, just requires lots of diagonal cuts starting at the base of fuel
> hose, injector side. Get the tip of the blade in that collar, and dig
> away.
> Use a set of pliers to pull the hose off, it takes a few minutes of
> cutting
> and tugging per injector. After doing it a couple times, you'll figure out
> that there is really nothing to mess up except your fingers if you're not
> careful!
>
> Then, I took them to witchhunter for the complete cleaning and flow
> testing.
> That guy knows what he is doing and has a nice setup. I would take
> injectors
> to him again. The injectors come back looking like new, and the flow
> numbers
> are very consistent. FWIW.
>
> Chris
>
> On Dec 8, 2007 8:08 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When I did the job, I did exactly this. Do it outside, cutting the
> clamps
> > with a dremel cutoff wheel produces a spray of sparks, and the
> opportunity
> > to ignite both rubber and gasoline remnant is there.
> > The hose pieces are on the barbs so tight that freeing them from the
> steel
> > clamps doesn't get it. They have to be cut off with a blade fine enough
> to
> > follow the contours of the barbed plastic without harming it. An exacto
> #
> > 11
> > blade works well.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Dec 7, 2007 8:35 PM, azsun99 <azsun99@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I know at least one other person on the list is doing or getting ready
> > to
> > > do this job.
> > > On Ben's site he shows the short hose cut off flush with the end of
> the
> > > nipple and
> > > then using an Exacto knife to cut the hose from the inside. Another
> > person
> > > suggested
> > > using side cutters to cut down through the ring clamp holding the hose
> > to
> > > the
> > > injector. I don't have an Exacto knife and a utility knife just wasn't
> > > doing the job.
> > > Trying to cut that ring with side cutters wasn't working very well
> > either.
> > > My solution
> > > was use of a Dremel tool with the thin cut-off blade. I VERY CAREFULLY
> > cut
> > > diagonally
> > > down through the ring as far as I could. Then I could pry it up out of
> > the
> > > way. Then
> > > used a new single-edge razor blade to cut down from the top, also
> > > diagonally and
> > > carefully, so as not to nick the nipple where the hose attaches. I
> also
> > > did not cut
> > > off the end of the hose. This gave me something to grab with pliers
> and
> > > twist and pull
> > > the hose off.
> > > I didn't cut into anything vital except the top of my thumb.
> > > Jerry
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Chris
> 88 Vanagon GL (daily driver)
> 87 Westfalia (in progress)
> http://wavanagon.googlepages.com/
>
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