Installing Injectors
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This is what I would add, after doing it twice... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
Get a MITY-VAC. Pull whatever "high pressure oil" plug or hose that is directly above the injector you are going to replace. You don't need to pull all the plugs and hoses, just the one that is right above the problem injector. Use the Mity-Vac to pump all the oil out of the rail and down the bore towards the injector. The plugs line up with the injector because that's how the head was machined. You can pump virtually all of the oil that would have drained into the injector bore and cylinder. When you are ready to pull the injector, get 3 rags ready. Pull the injector and immediately, within seconds, stuff a rag into the bore. Wait 5 seconds and replace with another rag. Wait 10 seconds and replace with the third rag. By now you have pumped or absorbed 99% of the oil and fuel that would have gone into the cyl. After about 10 mins or so pull the rag and spray some brake cleaner down the bore to blow any foreign objects down the hole into the cyl. Replace the injector with a new one with the copper gasket secure. Make sure you oil up the new injector good. Once it is in, pull the glow plug and turn over by hand using a 24mm socket on a 1/2" drive ratchet or breaker bar. It's hard, but doable. Once you have turned it over a few times, briefly re-connect the batteries and bump the starter a few times.
Get a MITY-VAC. Pull whatever "high pressure oil" plug or hose that is directly above the injector you are going to replace. You don't need to pull all the plugs and hoses, just the one that is right above the problem injector. Use the Mity-Vac to pump all the oil out of the rail and down the bore towards the injector. The plugs line up with the injector because that's how the head was machined. You can pump virtually all of the oil that would have drained into the injector bore and cylinder. When you are ready to pull the injector, get 3 rags ready. Pull the injector and immediately, within seconds, stuff a rag into the bore. Wait 5 seconds and replace with another rag. Wait 10 seconds and replace with the third rag. By now you have pumped or absorbed 99% of the oil and fuel that would have gone into the cyl. After about 10 mins or so pull the rag and spray some brake cleaner down the bore to blow any foreign objects down the hole into the cyl. Replace the injector with a new one with the copper gasket secure. Make sure you oil up the new injector good. Once it is in, pull the glow plug and turn over by hand using a 24mm socket on a 1/2" drive ratchet or breaker bar. It's hard, but doable. Once you have turned it over a few times, briefly re-connect the batteries and bump the starter a few times.
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