Just as I thought, the pintels & the tapered seat the pintels rest against are not disassembled. These two surfaces are what wear out when a injector wears & starts to affect your spray pattern. The plastic caps they replace are more like insulators & have little effect on the spray pattern. In other words, they don't rebuild - they clean & test. There is nothing wrong with cleaning & testing injectors. You just have to realize that the injectors are somewhere along their service life. And if you go2 200K out of a set don't expect another 200K just because they were cleaned. Thanks, Tom www.towercooler.com
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of Alistair Bell Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 10:09 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Injectors - Cleaning re: the recent discussion about injector "rebuild" and cleaning, here is a good pictorial of an alfa's injectors getting cleaned, measured, and caps replaced. (no pintel replacement)
http://www.alfa-restoration.co.uk/injectors/index.html
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