I Agree, I just want to be ready if I do have to send this thing off.
I used to think injection-pumps were all some black-magic bunch of tiny springs and B-Bs to fly out and never be seen again.
I have wasted a ton of money at the "fuel-injection shop", simply because those guys keep it a big secret just how simple a pump is.
They take your pump and go back behind closed doors and tell you to expect it to be ready in a couple weeks, after you give them a couple hundred dollars deposit.
As soon as you are gone, they run back in there and, in about fifteen minutes, have the problem fixed and the pump back together, using a ten-dollar seal-kit and maybe a two-dollar spring or such.
They then go fishing and play golf with your deposit money and
let on like they are just finishing up when, two weeks later, you show up with five-hundred more dollars to pick it up.
I had a VE pump to spring a flood of fuel from the main head seal; it was throwing a stream wide as a hand-saw blade, losing gallons a minute.
I had no money and plenty of time.
I got estimates of from $600 to $1200 to reseal and recondition the pump; this with ME taking the durn thing off of the engine and then re-installing it.
Let me say now that I would much rather rebuild ten pumps than to install one on an engine.
I was pointed in the direction of a pump rebuilding video and complementary booklet, excerpts of which were shown on You-Tube, and available on E-Bay.
Fifty bucks for the DVD and fifty more for the complimentary booklet.
I took a chance and ordered both.
I'm glad I got the booklet, as there is a tool shopping list that alone is worth the fifty bucks.
I took that tool list and went to Larry's Discount and Harbor Freight and bought every single tool listed that I did not already have; I spent maybe $35 and had a shopping-cart full of stuff.
I watched that DVD a hundred times, rewinding and rewatching parts of the process over and over.
I read that booklet until the pages looked like a ten-year old copy of
PentHouse
in a nine-year-old boy's tree-house.
I ordered up a complete DGK-121 seal kit, in fact I ordered ten of them.
My son (his truck) and I pulled the pump off the engine, and set in on dis-assembling and repairing it.
I had every last single piece, part, and participle laid out across the surgically clean bench, soaking submerged in clean fuel to prevent this Kentucky humidity from flash-rusting the pristine polished steel parts.
The
on my face was a mile wide when the engine roared to life at the first touch of the starter-button.
We didn't even "crack" any injector-lines, even though we had all six of them completely off of the engine.
I was about half-expecting for there to be at least a few drips here and there, but that pump was and still is as dry as a bone.
You can do likewise and keep most of your money in your pocket.
If you do follow this advice and do save a ton of money, you can mail me a fifty for talking you into it.