I like to be prepared for a breakdown. I've got tools, belts, hoses etc with me. Would it be worthwhile to carry a known good or new injector? Might be able to save big $$$ if you needed one in Road Narrows Montana or Bad water,Ca.
Does anybody carry a spare injector?
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79jasper
Chickenhawk
Might as well if you have extra money. Maybe a few.
Knuckledragger
blowing chunks and grabbing porcelain
I think there is an injectors-R-us shop in Bad Water.
SparkandFire
We're drinking beer
In the past when I've gone off the grid into no man's land I've carried such spares as injectors, IP's, lift pumps, belts, hoses, water pump, tubes of rtv, twenty gallons of water, three gallons of oil, fuel filters, baling wire, electrical tape, scraps of various sized rubber fuel hose, return line caps and o rings, olives, spare vacuum pump, alternator, belt tensioner and idler, a couple gallons of ATF, every tool needed for any of the above listed repairs. Not to mention various sized wood blocks, a good six ton bottle jack, food and water for the family, sleeping bags, fishing poles and tackle, rifle, knives, cooking gear....
Since moving to the suburbs I now carry less that .1% of the above listed items.
Things like IP's and Injectors need to be packaged correctly or else they will be damaged in transit. One word of advise that my dad taught me is to change your belt and tensioner NOW before it fails(for serp. belts) and carry the old ones with you for spares. Those little 50 cent bearings WILL fail at the worst possible time, nothing like being stranded due to a chinese bearing crapping the bed on you...
Since moving to the suburbs I now carry less that .1% of the above listed items.
Things like IP's and Injectors need to be packaged correctly or else they will be damaged in transit. One word of advise that my dad taught me is to change your belt and tensioner NOW before it fails(for serp. belts) and carry the old ones with you for spares. Those little 50 cent bearings WILL fail at the worst possible time, nothing like being stranded due to a chinese bearing crapping the bed on you...
jaluhn83
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Course the other part of the puzzle would be to make sure you have the deep socket and whatnot to actually r&r the injector.
Not sure I would bother carrying one though. Doesn't seem like something that's got much chance of breaking and stranding you for one, and it's also not the easiest thing to carry. You'd have to be real careful with packaging to make sure it didn't get damaged from however many thousand miles rattling around in the back of the truck.
I think the injection pump itself is much more likely to strand you somewhere myself.
Not sure I would bother carrying one though. Doesn't seem like something that's got much chance of breaking and stranding you for one, and it's also not the easiest thing to carry. You'd have to be real careful with packaging to make sure it didn't get damaged from however many thousand miles rattling around in the back of the truck.
I think the injection pump itself is much more likely to strand you somewhere myself.
justinray
Contributor
I carry my most recently pulled 8, once theyve been pop tested I package them like a bunch of eggs and put them in my toolbox, if I have to replace 1 on the road, the other 7 come out when I get home, rebuilt and become my new spares. Had to do this once when I had a dribbler and egt's CLIMBED fast.
icanfixall
Official GMM hand model
A spare injecter is something I have never carried but seems like I should. So far all the spares I carry have never been of any use but I still have them. When I drove from the west coast here in cali to the 2009 rally I carried a spare injection pump. I did this because I had an issue with my pump. I had what I thought was a heat soak problem. tuns out I had turned down the fuel so much it was less than a stock injection pump. Not a ruined roller and pump cage like Mel and I had thought. I had changed several fuel filters and it was thought some dirt got into the new filter somehow. No matter what.. When I change a fuel filter I pour fuel into ONLY the outer ring of holes in the top og the filter. That way the filter does its job of filtering the fuel before it reaches the injection pump. No matter how clean your jug or fuel is make sure the filter does its job. Pouring fuel directly into the ceter hole of the filter bypass the filtering element and any dirt you can't see will ruin the pump. A spare parts area filled with what you feel you may need is a happy feeling.
homelessduck
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"A" spare injector? I have a spare "set" in my box, lol. They aren't new but they are good injectors. I also have a spare set of glow plugs and an IP. 
icanfixall
Official GMM hand model
Funny you just brought up the spare glow plugs... I just found another spare set of plugs in an area I would never have thought I would have stashed them. And I just did some cleaning in that area a few months ago... Must have missed them.. So now I have them all "collected" in the same place... Just hope I don't forget where that place is... Like I did when I built my second engine. I knew I had an oil pump but could not find it. So I bought another new pump. Now about 2 weeks ago I found 2 new oil pumps I had bought. I've had them so long (about 6 years) that I completely forgot I had them and where they were. But had a feeling I had at least one somewhere. As it turned out, I had 2 spares and ended up buying another one because I couldn't locate the spares... Nope... they weren't behind the rear seat... Ron...
I can get a new injector for $35+tax. Dunno the quality but if it will get me home after a failure thats all I ask. Or I can pull one from the JY for $6 and hope it works. Is there a way to ck a used injector @ PiCaPart?
FORDF250HDXLT
The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air
i like to prepare against one.i keep up on maintenance and carry no parts.
i do confuses,the furthest i drive from home is 50-60 miles max anyway.
jonathan
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I just carry water and a spare tire
IDIDieselJohn
0-60....eventually
I agree. My vehicles are all extremely well looked after and I do not carry extra parts in them. Just tools so if I do break down, I can fix my self up good enough to get back home, or get the truck somewhere I can leave it there for a day or so, so I can come back and tow it home if I can't drive it back. But they all stay within a radius of 60 miles from home, with the occasional long trip.
I do carry extra parts in the motorhome though, cause when ever we leave with it, it's always over 500 to 4000 miles from home we go with it. I have a lift pump, couple old good injectors, return lines, T's, a starter, complete set of old belts and all fluids found in the driveline, filters and lots of tools.
Thanks to this, never had we needed a tow truck in the 12 years and over 100k miles that we've traveled, literally all over the country with it.
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79jasper
Chickenhawk
So just a random thought.
Let's say someone was on a trip and had a injector sticking open, let's just say it's real late at night so no parts stores are open and don't have a spare with them.
Could a person just remove the line from that injector to make it home? Maybe run a hose with a catch can to not be spraying fuel everywhere.
Let's say someone was on a trip and had a injector sticking open, let's just say it's real late at night so no parts stores are open and don't have a spare with them.
Could a person just remove the line from that injector to make it home? Maybe run a hose with a catch can to not be spraying fuel everywhere.
Short answer, No.
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