Fuel Injector Cleaning
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Well the professional cleaning does do a much better job than those in tank cleaners. The professional injector cleaners are connected directly to the fuel rail and supply the concentrated cleaning mixture directly to the injectors. This method is more effective because the cleaning solution isn't diluted by the tank of gas. So how much is the professional cleaning from the stealership?
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How much is an injector?
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·While we're on the subject, does anyone know a good (cheap) place to send injectors in to get cleaned and blueprinted?
60-75$ seems fairly reasonable if you ask me. New injectors are expensive considering you need 6 of them. I just looked at autozone.com and its 55 bux for one injector for my 94 vulcan. 37 bux for a remanufectured one but you got to send your old ones in to get 9 bux back.
Used injectors are fairly cheap though, like on ebay and such.
Used injectors are fairly cheap though, like on ebay and such.
I used a place called Marren Motorsports (http://www.injector.com/) to clean some motorcycle injectors with 155,000 miles on them. They cleaned them, documented their flow rates, and sent them back for $25 each.
FWIW, the worst one I sent them flowed 91% initially, but even after cleaning, not one of them did better than 98% I recall. They said the stink of the dissolving varnish forced everyone out of the shop tho.
Personally the best "in the bottle" cleaner from "off the shelf" places that I've used is the valvoline complete fuel system cleaner. It says to use it once a year, but I do it every oil change.
But I'm going to try out that 3m injector cleaner that taps into the fuel lines sometime over the summer.
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1. Might be tought on the fuel cleaner built into the pump since the stroger concentration of the disolver might eat away at it.
2. Since you have less of the cleaner, it wont be there as long so it might not clean the injectors as well.
So i guess it depends on what works better stronger concetration over shorter period of time or weaker concentration over a longer period of time.
I tend to think it takes time for stuff to disolve so I'd go with the weaker over longer time.
Just my $.02
Hmm... Well I can see a few posibilities:
1. Might be tought on the fuel cleaner built into the pump since the stroger concentration of the disolver might eat away at it.
2. Since you have less of the cleaner, it wont be there as long so it might not clean the injectors as well.
So i guess it depends on what works better stronger concetration over shorter period of time or weaker concentration over a longer period of time.
I tend to think it takes time for stuff to disolve so I'd go with the weaker over longer time.
Just my $.02
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