In car injector cleaning?

[Bernie]

Does anyone have any suggestions on cleaning injectors while still installed?

My room mate's POS camaro is acting up again. Last time it did this, it was a jacked up injector or two, so we were thinking of trying to clean them before replacing them.

At first I was like "seafoam it", but that doesn't really go through the injectors unless you run it through the fuel system. And since this car won't run consistently enough to make it out of the neighborhood, that won't really help us out.

Anyone got any ideas? (my idea was push it over a cliff and get a reliable car, but he's young and broke)

[sharkythesharkdogg]

The injector cleaning systems I've seen all want a car that is at least partially running. They do work, though. Call around and see if any local places offer that service. Maybe he can limp it there.

EDIT: You can tell you're prior military, because you're always helping out the room mate. It's some unwritten military law.

[Stealth97]

When I worked at a Ford dealer, we had a BG injector service that kicked ***. It came in a canister that we connected to the air compressor, and disconnected the fuel line, so the car would run off this stuff for a few minutes, and it really did do a great job, but it cost around $100, and for that price you could just have them cleaned the real way.

Edit: I missed the part about it not running

[Bernie]

Yep, some times I feel like the guy's older brother... He's pretty broke, so fixing on the cheap is a necessity right now (I want my rent $$ on the 1st like any good landlord).

I talked to Hector and he told me to check for vacuum leaks first. Since the car has been running daily that a stuck or fouled injector was less likely, unless something happened to the wiring.

EDIT: It idles, but under load it dies. I've heard it but not seen it, so I'm not sure if it is stalling because of too much fuel, etc...

[Bernie]

Hellz yea!

We tore into the engine after work, replaced some jacked up vacuum lines, the O2 sensor (which wasn't even plugged in) and since it still wouldn't run, we took off the intake and pulled the fuel rail.

We hooked up each injector to a ghetto injector cleaner that I copied from a YouTube video and found the dead injector. Also cleaned a lot of gunk out of the other injectors in the process.

$59 for a new injector from Vato Zone and we were set.

She fired right up and purrs like a kitten. :)

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[RotorNutFD3S]

:lol: That is awesome! I'm going to remember this for sure, there have been a few times that would have come in handy.

[VitaminD]

nice rig Bernie! I like the use of the syringe, I will definitely file that away for future use.