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reviving a hibernator part 2 140-160 1973

I took some of the advice I read here to the D jet car we're trying to get
started. A couple of the injectors spray well, but a couple don't. One of
them I poked with the nail and I felt the pin move back and forth. It didn't
spray however. I had an assistant crank the engine with the ignition disabled.
Finally I had the engine cranked and I kept the nail in there and the fuel just
kinda poured out. Is this the end of the injector? The good ones sprayed
intermittantly like they should. This one just kept spilling out gas. I only
worked on one injector because it is raining pretty hard here in New York today.








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reviving a hibernator part 2 140-160 1973

The pushing with the nail opens the injector, so if you were holding the nail on it it would continue to spray. Just pushing the nail in once breaks the gum sticking it shut - that is often enough to revive it, unless it sticks again. If it ever sat more than a week or two with water contaminated gas a steel spring inside can rust and the injector will no longer want to shut back off. However, you can usually tell if the injector is just stiff or if it has no return 'spring' to it at all. In your case the two failed injectors could be something else. The injectors fire in pairs, #1 & #3, #2 & #4. If yours are not firing in such groupings it could be some electrical fault. A quick check would be to try the wire from a working injector, or check with a multimeter (but the brief 3 volt pulse could be hard to spot). If one set isn't working it is likely the distributor contacts (in the base of the distributor). There are two sets of contacts for each injector circuit.







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