Date:         Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:44:13 -0500
Reply-To:     Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
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From:         Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Injectors - Cleaning
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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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


alistair