[DML] Re: Cleaning fuel injectors

["jtrealtywebspannet" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Soaking the injectors can only make the outside nice and clean and shiny. It can't clean the insides. The only way to properly clean the insides is to use the injector/tester. Alternately try using Techron fuel system and injector cleaner in a full tank of gas. Use the tank up as low as you can before refilling. As likely as it is that you could have an injector not spraying properly a vacuum leak is more likely the cause of the bad idle. I do not recommend using Stabil or any other fuel stabilizer. A better strategy is to remove as much fuel as you can from the tank and put fresh stuff in when you take the car out of storage. Over time rubber seals harden and age and no longer seal as well as they should. The only fix is to replace them. If the injector seals are hard they are probably leaking.
David Teitelbaum

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Soma576@... wrote:
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> I replaced my injectors about 7 years ago, but I think it might be time for a cleaning.  I have no problem removing the injectors, so what would be the best, safe way to clean them?  Should I just put them in a tray, soak them in Berryman's B12 overnight or what?  The car has been regularly driven, and I always put Stabil in the tank for the winter, but over the last two years I have a slightly rough hot idle. Sometimes it surges once, idles a little erratic for awhile, surges, idles erratic... other times it sounds pretty good, but not steady like I know it can.  I know it will purr like a kitten, because it did in the past, so I'm thinking I might have a dirty injector.
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> Thanks,
> Andy
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