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Sigurd · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 3:10 am Post subject: How do I get the injectors out?

I have a '77.0 924 and want to take out the injectors, but can't. From what I've read you should be able to pull them out, but that doesn't work with me. Does anyone have any advice about how to get them out?

Thank you,

~Frank

Slam · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 3:35 am Post subject:

Have you got the little L-shaped CIS injector puller? If not, I'd say find one. It makes this an easy job. It's just a bracket that slips under the injector, with a slot in it for your long-handled screwdriver - just insert the driver and lever up against the cam cover.

HTH
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Sigurd · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:06 am Post subject:

Thanks for the advice. Do you know where i could get this tool.

Thank you,
~Frank

Slam · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:11 am Post subject:

http://www.usrallyteam.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=548

That's what it looks like. Maybe you could make one. I think I got mine from PelicanParts but I can't remember.
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'84 944 - kid blew motor
'83 944 - resting comfortably. For 12 years
'87 944 - sideswiped by trucker
'80 924 - gone
'78 924 - gone
'77 924 - rusting comfortably

Sigurd · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:34 am Post subject:

Thanks again. I was thinking of making my own. The picture will really help.
Thanks,
~Frank

!tom · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:59 am Post subject:

Lots of people just use a claw hammer with good results.
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BionicBalls · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 642 Location: Charlotte, NC

I use a medium sized pry bar.
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jacobscott209 · Joined: 11 Dec 2010 Posts: 52 Location: Turlock, CA

With mine I took a standard set of pliers got a hold on the injector and pryied up on the pliers from the bottom with a flat head screwdriver. popped right out.
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StienbargerR · Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 1362 Location: Richmond, IN

Hey, claw hammers work well, just be sure to pry at the underside of the bolt head, and try to avoid the fuel lines themselves.

Ryan
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gohim · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 4459 Location: Rialto, CA

Don't pull them out unless you already have replacement o-rings (the green viton seals are the best), and injector inserts (if yours are still the originals and not the upgraded orange plastic ones).

Use the injector removal tool, and wear eye protection. The old rubber seals become as hard as rocks, and often shatter like glass throwing shrapnel (sharp pieces at that) all over the place when the injectors come loose.

When you get the injectors out, if the o-rings have not already broken, you will have to cut them off. Use a pair of wire cutters to nip them half way or less (don't nick the injector), and they will shatter apart.

emoore924 · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2822

Lots of good advice here.

Here's my technique:

Grab the hex head on the injector with a pair of vice grips so they're grabbing the injector nose down and the handles are pointing straight up in the air. Slip a pry bar into the gap in the jaws of the vice grips, jam the tip of the pry bar against the valve cover and pull up. The injector will pop right out damage free.