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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 02:24 PM
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Is there anything special to clean the injectors while they're out. Carb cleaner?
Honestly, spend $50 and get a sonic jewelery cleaner with a basket large enough to hold and injector or two. Fill the basket with mineral spirits, submerge the injector(s) in the basket, and let 'er rip for a cleaning cycle. I should repost pics of the before/after of my injectors when they were sonically cleaned. The $50 is once again a wise investment for the efficiency of the job it accomplishes.

This looks like a good one. Kendal INDUSTRAL GRADE 160 WATTS 2.5 LITERS
 
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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 02:30 PM
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Unfortunately I have to have the truck back together and running by at the latest money. If I had planned Better I could have got, considering you're not joking with me.

I just got quoted 17 bucks a cylinder for O-Rings so I think I'll go somewhere else for those
 
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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 02:39 PM
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Jeez, ask if they'll throw in a hooker with a complete set of o-rings. They're not made of unicorn farts.

Save the injectors for another day, but for now hitting them with carb cleaner (inlet and outlet) should be fine.
 
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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 02:41 PM
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You can get service kits for the injectors, new o rings, filters etc.

Just a example of a kit. http://fuelinjectorconnection.com/sh...ewCat&catId=50
 
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Originally Posted by VWandDodge
Honestly, spend $50 and get a sonic jewelery cleaner with a basket large enough to hold and injector or two. Fill the basket with mineral spirits, submerge the injector(s) in the basket, and let 'er rip for a cleaning cycle. I should repost pics of the before/after of my injectors when they were sonically cleaned. The $50 is once again a wise investment for the efficiency of the job it accomplishes.

This looks like a good one. Kendal INDUSTRAL GRADE 160 WATTS 2.5 LITERS

Thanks for this info! I always thought those cleaners where way more costly than that.
 
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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by VWandDodge
Jeez, ask if they'll throw in a hooker with a complete set of o-rings. They're not made of unicorn farts.

Save the injectors for another day, but for now hitting them with carb cleaner (inlet and outlet) should be fine.
Will do. On to timing chain while the intake is being cleaned
 
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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 05:05 PM
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Guy said it was too bad for just a dip so he went ahead and media blasted it!!!
 
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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 05:55 PM
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Curious to hear how your truck runs with the new plenum and timing chain with that many miles and how the intake looked lol
 
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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 06:22 PM
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Not cutting runners, guy I talked was a older guy who builds engines.

He has a built 360 in a Dakota and is about to put a blower on it.

Also said best thing was a dual plane cam, duration not lift, for torque and mpg.

Also said, and demonstrated, that Chrysler heat treats one of the valves on the factory head so that it can't expand and contract like the other valve, so they crack right down the middle
 
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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 08:22 PM
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Pretty pic of my newly cleaned intake

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