Injector O-ring failure?!?

[sciroccos at earthlink.net (Jim Ruffi)]

Yeah.  I always use diagonal cutters to "snap" the old ones.  Always use
some gas on the new rings when you install...never install dry.  I have also
used silicone spray.  I recently installed a some that I have had siting in
my hardware cabinet for 15 years and, although a little hard, they worked
fine.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daun Yeagley" <vwdaun@yahoo.com>
To: "Jim Jarrett" <jarrett@rpa.net>; "Scirocco List"
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: Injector O-ring failure?!?
> > All of the top ones split trying to install them!!!!  I
> > didn't have
> > this problem when I did my convertible -- can these
> > things
> > get...old?  Brittle?
> >
> > Anyone else ever had this happen to them with new
> > o-rings???
>
> Never had it happen with new ones.  The old ones I
> literally had to chisle out of the car though.
>
>
> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
> '81 Scirocco S               '86 Scirocco 8v
> '88 Scirocco 16v             '88 Scirocco Slegato
> '96 Passat GLX Wagon         '56 Cessna 172
> The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts -
Ehrlich's Law.