whats the best way to clean injectors?

[sandor at vwot.org (Sandor)]

when I prepped my 2.0L 16V for swap into my mk1 jetta I new I'd have to
clean the injectors...they'd been sitting for 2-3 years and who knew what
was stuck or gunked in there.
I grabbed some Throttle Body cleaner (the aerosol spray kind) and spray
the ends of them to loosen up any gunk...then I sprayed a whack of the
cleaner into a glass jar and let them sit in it for a couple hours, then I
went out and re-sprayed them in the nozzles to clean em out again...the
amount of crap and debris I got out was surprising.

hth

sandor

> I'm fairly positive that my wifes cabby is having some injector issues
> as we've checked just about everything else (timing, plugs, coil,
> wires).  The current thinking now is that it's an injector thats barely
> spraying as there seems to be a miss at idle that stays all the way
> through the rpm range. We've had to richen the piss outta the mixture in
> order to keep the car running and it won't push over 80mph in 5th.  The
> car reaches 4k rpm and won't go any further.  So all we can figure is
> that it's a fuel problem at this point.  I have a spare set of
> injectors, but they have been sitting for 8 months and I figure it might
> be a good idea to clean them.
>
> Now I know that they can not be back flowed to clean so I was thinking
> of letting them soak in injector cleaner for a few hours.  I have new
> O-rings to put on them as well.  I don't have what would be needed to
> setup a pressure cleaning system for them so will the soaking methood
> work or is there another way that I haven't thought of that will do the
> job?
>
> Thanks,
> William Snyder
>
> 88' Scirocco 16v
> 89' Cabriolet 8v
> 71' Karmann Ghia
>
>
>
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