Injector failure

toddjlarson · Post by **toddjlarson** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 8:30 pm

Hi. I was wondering if any of you guys have ever had an injector fail. I suspect one of my injectors may be "stuck" open, or just not functioning properly.

Like it drips too much fuel when idling. Anybody had a similar experience?

Blazzik03si · Post by **Blazzik03si** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 7:43 am

I have had clogged injectors before but not one stuck... The clogging was due to some idiot that put sugar in the gas tank before i bought the civic.
You could clearly see a caramel like substance on the tip of each injector. The motor would bog so bad from 1 - 4k RPM but from vtec on up (4200 rpm) it rapped like a striped ass ape. Cleaned them in ChemTool, soaked for an hour, and ran like a champ afterwards.

Whats it doing?

toddjlarson · Post by **toddjlarson** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:03 pm

The car dies at idle sometimes, like it is flooding. I was thinking maybe a malfunctioning injector could be letting in too much fuel at idle.

I am in the process of welding a cracked exhaust, putting new studs in the manifold, and setting the timing.

I replaced the igniter in the distrubutor, and I put the distributor back on where I marked it, but it may be a little off. Improper timing can cause some weird idling.

The car never used to have problems idling, so I am thinking is either the timing or the injectors.

Blazzik03si · Post by **Blazzik03si** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 9:28 pm

Well i think if the injector was malfunctioning you would be throwing some trouble codes. Jumper the ecu diag plug and see if you are getting any trouble codes.

toddjlarson · Post by **toddjlarson** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 10:32 am

Nope, no error codes.

I have one of those PR3 ECUs with the eye on the top of it.

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