Date:         Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:53:50 -0500
Reply-To:     Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
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From:         Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject:      Re: '91 vanagon GL fuel injector flush/clean?
Comments: To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
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The pintel caps aren't the pintels nor are they the bores they ride in.

These guys aren't rebuilding - they are cleaning & testing. And like I
stated earlier, if it's worn it's a throw away.

I'll stop short of calling any business that claims to rebuild injectors
crooks but they are definitely in the grey area.

BTW, I used to rebuild Bosch diesel injectors for myself & friends and I
still have the pressure tester needed to test them. Mechanical diesel
injectors are just poppet valves set to open at about 4 BAR and the housings
can be disassembled. But even with these, you don't rebuild the injectors -
you replace injectors that fail with new ones. Someone "rebuilding" these
can't afford to drop in new injectors because the cost is higher than the
service they are offering.

Tom
www.towercooler.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Karl Wolz
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 11:37 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: '91 vanagon GL fuel injector flush/clean?

I just looked at their web site.  They do NOT disassemble them, but do a
very thorough cleaning, and replace the pintel caps (I don't know either!).

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
|Of Alistair Bell
|Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:24 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: '91 vanagon GL fuel injector flush/clean?
|
|you have to take pics of them if you can. I'm really curious as how
|they get them apart.
|
|cheers
|
|alistair
|
|
|On 11-Jun-10, at 9:05 PM, John Rodgers wrote:
|
|Sorry - I should have said they return to you the injector tips and
|the_ pintels_ that they replace.