skydiver007
DRB III Owner If You Need
First, I love this forum, it has saved me again.
Saturday morning and I am surfing this forum for information on CCV piece and decide to go take a look at it. Remove engine cover and all looks well except the dreaded Black Death around injector 1.
Probably shouldnt have, but I removed the bolt holding it down, and then removed all five to make sure they werent frozen in the head. They all came out.
Ok, do I fix it today or have to wait till Monday for parts. Europarts has the replacement copper seals that I wont get until at least Tuesday. Time to call Dodge parts. Local dealer says he doesnt have them, but Jeep dealer 8 miles away has 11 of them. Call to confirm he has them and go get 5 of them.
Come home and get back on forum to see best way to get injector out. Loosen the bolt holding it down and go for a drive. Sure enough on the way back at a red light it started idling rough . Opened hood and sure enough injector 1 is higher than all the rest.
Remove all hoses and connectors and out she came. Top has a big ring of gunked on crap and there is gunk all the way down. Call the dealer again, do you have this part and how much. No I dont and they are $500. Thanks but no thanks. Decide to reinstall and the DRB III I purchased will let me know if all is well. Take laquer thinner and a rag and proceed to clean the injector and the hole in the head it came out of.
Interesting when the injector came out, the old copper seal is all mangled and wrapped around the injector. Probably due to the fact I blasted it out with cylinder pressure and it got hot.
Got everything cleaned up and test fit and it slid all the way in with no problem. New seal worried me though because it might slip off the end of injector when I slide it into hole. No worry as it slid off and stayed at bottom of hole. Inserted injector in hole and tightened everything down and torqued to 62Lbs.
Took her for a ride and all is well. Ran every test I could with DRB III and all results are nominal including compression test.
Will keep an eye on her for further problems.
Overall with the information provided here, not really a big hastle. Took me maybe 2 hours of actual work time.
Maybe removal and replacement of seals every once in a while might not be a bad idea.
Saturday morning and I am surfing this forum for information on CCV piece and decide to go take a look at it. Remove engine cover and all looks well except the dreaded Black Death around injector 1.
Probably shouldnt have, but I removed the bolt holding it down, and then removed all five to make sure they werent frozen in the head. They all came out.
Ok, do I fix it today or have to wait till Monday for parts. Europarts has the replacement copper seals that I wont get until at least Tuesday. Time to call Dodge parts. Local dealer says he doesnt have them, but Jeep dealer 8 miles away has 11 of them. Call to confirm he has them and go get 5 of them.
Come home and get back on forum to see best way to get injector out. Loosen the bolt holding it down and go for a drive. Sure enough on the way back at a red light it started idling rough . Opened hood and sure enough injector 1 is higher than all the rest.
Remove all hoses and connectors and out she came. Top has a big ring of gunked on crap and there is gunk all the way down. Call the dealer again, do you have this part and how much. No I dont and they are $500. Thanks but no thanks. Decide to reinstall and the DRB III I purchased will let me know if all is well. Take laquer thinner and a rag and proceed to clean the injector and the hole in the head it came out of.
Interesting when the injector came out, the old copper seal is all mangled and wrapped around the injector. Probably due to the fact I blasted it out with cylinder pressure and it got hot.
Got everything cleaned up and test fit and it slid all the way in with no problem. New seal worried me though because it might slip off the end of injector when I slide it into hole. No worry as it slid off and stayed at bottom of hole. Inserted injector in hole and tightened everything down and torqued to 62Lbs.
Took her for a ride and all is well. Ran every test I could with DRB III and all results are nominal including compression test.
Will keep an eye on her for further problems.
Overall with the information provided here, not really a big hastle. Took me maybe 2 hours of actual work time.
Maybe removal and replacement of seals every once in a while might not be a bad idea.