I am rather vague on that but yes, they are removed from the car and put into a dedicated test machine (I have been informed that the machine costs >£50,000) which runs a series of tests on each injector and produces a report on the performance.
As for the rebuild, haven't a clue.
The guy in Blythe comes very highly recommended and has lots of customers all over the counties (Northumberland/Tyne & Wear/Co. Durham/Cumbria). Mainly Taxis and haulage contractors.
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Re injector testing:
Friend of mine had intermittent difficult starting on his 60,ooo miler Freelander with BMW engine which is now in the hands of local garage, who claim to know a bit about diesels. Interestingly, they've tested the injectors in-situ, measuring the "leak off", finding 1 injector failed, and 2 within the 5% tolerance (1 reconditioned injector = £180!). We think that they're having to run the engine to do the test.
The garage says that there's always a risk of damaging the head whilst removing an injector, presumably as most cars now have ally heads, so I guess an in-engine test is a good starting point, though I would expect much better testing to be possible once injector removed
Martin
Friend of mine had intermittent difficult starting on his 60,ooo miler Freelander with BMW engine which is now in the hands of local garage, who claim to know a bit about diesels. Interestingly, they've tested the injectors in-situ, measuring the "leak off", finding 1 injector failed, and 2 within the 5% tolerance (1 reconditioned injector = £180!). We think that they're having to run the engine to do the test.
The garage says that there's always a risk of damaging the head whilst removing an injector, presumably as most cars now have ally heads, so I guess an in-engine test is a good starting point, though I would expect much better testing to be possible once injector removed
Martin
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The abovementioned guy in Blyth - do you want contact details?superloopy1 wrote:Stevemyglaren wrote: The guy in Blythe comes very highly recommended and has lots of customers all over the counties (Northumberland/Tyne & Wear/Co. Durham/Cumbria). Mainly Taxis and haulage contractors.
Out of interest, who did your injectors?