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Originally Posted by tinypanzer
Y'know, I have never done my injectors either and I often wonder about their effect on my idle smoothness. I have noticed that I have to give it a little gas to make the car start, which I attribute to leaky injectors with no evidence other than gut feeling that I'm a tad flooded at startup. Do you have this symptom too?
If you are wondering if your injector seal is leaking enough to make a vacuum leak, you can test by spraying starting fluid around the injector and see if your idle surges up. However, I don't know what effect the ether would have on the seal, so attempt with care....
If you do go and replace your injectors, I'd be very keen to know what your results are. Please post back if you do! I've been considering it for a while, but I really think I need to do my caster joints first, not to mention my rather ran-out front discs. Also, that stupid air hose that connects to the cold-start injector and the idle air valve likes to get brittle and leak, that gave me a terrible idle for a while.
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Will do. It's kinda been on my list of "to do" for a while, but never critical to the running of the vehicle.
I do have some slight starting issues. It doesn't always go first crank, kinda like the fuel is either a) leaking into cylinders, or b) it's siphoning back to the fuel tank. I did buy a new fuel pump check valve but haven't installed it yet. I'm going to guess that it won't help anything with the idle though, but it's a cheap part that I don't mind replacing. The fuel filter and fuel pump are both decently new. Accumulator is old though, and injectors are original.
I'm thinking about trying the starter fluid on each injector seal, but that would only tell me if the seal is leaking, and not if the actual injector itself may be faulty. Might still be something to check out though.
And I have replaced all 4 of the hoses which typically crack in that area. The 2 to the ICV, the one from valve cover to head, and the one from air box to valve cover.