Is it ok to swap injectors from cylinder to cylinder??

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QuinGarcia
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Joined: Fri Oct 18, 2002 11:43 am

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I just replaced all my injector seals because I had a leak where the #1 cylinder injector meets the fuel rail. This fixed that leak, but now I have a leak on the #4 cylinder injector. I believe the leak is also coming from where the injector meets the fuel rail, but i suppose it could also be coming from where the metal injector body meets the red plastic top of the injector. Is it common for injectors to leak between their different parts? I have fully tightened the fuel rail bolts, so that's not the problem. I was thinking that I'd pull the injectors again and swap the #4 injector to another cylinder while replacing it's respective seal to see if it still leaks. Is this ok? Any suggestions?


ninjak84
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Joined: Wed Jul 24, 2002 7:50 am
Car: S13, Z32, Titan

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It shouldnt do any harm if you haven't modded the engine heavily.I wouldnt do it if you're running either a wet or dry shot of nitrous though, just because I wouldn't know the results.

drjohn
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Joined: Sun May 05, 2002 3:27 pm

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Switching injectors from cyl. to cyl. won't hurt and is a good way to check for a bad injector if you have a miss on a cyl. and switch the injector and the miss moves to that cyl. you have a bad injector.


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