Golden Helmet
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Heya fellas. I finally worked up the courage to tackle my return lines today... take a guess how well that went
Everything was going way too smoothly, right up to the part where I'm reconnecting the metal fuel lines to the injectors. I managed to get 7 of them back on with just my fingers, but the last one just would not go on straight. The only time the nut seems to catch on the threads is when it's visibly crossthreaded, the rest of the time the threads just refuse to catch.
It's the injector on the passenger side closest to the firewall.
I took some pictures of the threads. To my incompetent rookie eyes, they look messed up near the top. How do they look to you guys?
I did at one point try some gentle persuasion with my wrench, so if they are indeed messed up, that's what did it.
So, time for a new injector? I did rent a kit to try and clean up the threads, but, again, incompetent rookie. I gotta watch some videos on how to actually use the tool, but it seems like it might be easier to just replace the injector.
Everything was going way too smoothly, right up to the part where I'm reconnecting the metal fuel lines to the injectors. I managed to get 7 of them back on with just my fingers, but the last one just would not go on straight. The only time the nut seems to catch on the threads is when it's visibly crossthreaded, the rest of the time the threads just refuse to catch.
It's the injector on the passenger side closest to the firewall.
I took some pictures of the threads. To my incompetent rookie eyes, they look messed up near the top. How do they look to you guys?
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I did at one point try some gentle persuasion with my wrench, so if they are indeed messed up, that's what did it.
So, time for a new injector? I did rent a kit to try and clean up the threads, but, again, incompetent rookie. I gotta watch some videos on how to actually use the tool, but it seems like it might be easier to just replace the injector.