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Old 07-06-2007, 02:08 AM
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Good point Brian. I'll take a closer look at the fittings and compare to an injector and a glow plug.

As a start, I did a test run and got the injector hardlines off/on without any problems. While in there, I got all the glow plug 8 mm nuts off without breaking anything.

Now that I can get the glow plugs off, I'll take the compression readings there. I'll still pull the injectors to pop test and clean and also take a look at the PC's. I want to see if the balls are all there. What else should I be looking for?


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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton View Post
The injectors are quite large and fill a gigantic hole. If the volume of the injector fitting for the tester is different than the volume of the actual injector (likely), then your results will be meaningless on an absolute basis.

Since the glow plug is much smaller, the error generated by the fitting for the tester will likely be much smaller as well.

I would suggest that the glow plug fitting would provide more accurate results.
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