Fw: whats the best way to clean injectors?

[kridgley at brownscar.com (Kervin Ridgley)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kervin Ridgley" <kridgley@brownscar.com>
To: "calimus" <calimus@techography.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: whats the best way to clean injectors?


> I did mine a few months back.  Try to find a repair place that deals with
> old MB, Audi, VW, or BMW.  They hopefully will have an injector cleaner.
It
> will take  a tech 20 minutes going really slow to test/clean the injectors
> if they are out of the car.  Before you just replace them , pull the old
> ones out and see how they are spraying.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "calimus" <calimus@techography.net>
> To: "Scirocco-l" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 1:33 PM
> Subject: whats the best way to clean injectors?
>
>
> > 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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