Injectors! Oh boy!
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Year: 1996
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0L
How do we clean the injectors? Precautions, tricks? anything??
Should I also clean the fuel 'rail' which supplies fuel to the injectors?
Should I also clean the fuel 'rail' which supplies fuel to the injectors?
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From: Tenn. and Mich.
Year: 2004
Model: Grand Cherokee
Engine: 4.7L V8
In your location can you buy bottles of "Fuel Injection Cleaner" from the auto parts store, gas station, or department store? If so, buy some ,read the label, and add to your fuel tank. That is the safest way to clean your injectors and fuel system, short of having it done professionally. It is hard to tell what kind of services are offered overseas, so I am giving safe advice.
In your location can you buy bottles of "Fuel Injection Cleaner" from the auto parts store, gas station, or department store? If so, buy some ,read the label, and add to your fuel tank. That is the safest way to clean your injectors and fuel system, short of having it done professionally. It is hard to tell what kind of services are offered overseas, so I am giving safe advice.
Last edited by a1racer; May 28, 2009 at 01:57 AM.
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Yes I can buy the Injector Cleaner bottles.. But I want to clean the injectors first since I believe cleaning them myself would be a better job than using an aftermarket injector cleaner, which I believe wouldn't be much effective.
So should I just remove the injectors, spray the carb cleaner on them to remove the dirt outside.. then I put them in a pan full of carb cleaner and let them stay their for a few mins.. dry them off, use new o-rings and lube them before fitting them. And thats it?
So should I just remove the injectors, spray the carb cleaner on them to remove the dirt outside.. then I put them in a pan full of carb cleaner and let them stay their for a few mins.. dry them off, use new o-rings and lube them before fitting them. And thats it?
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I can also get them cleaned by a workshop, but, they charge an arm and a leg for these EFi vehicles.. getting the codes scanned alone would cost atleast $10 so you get the idea.
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Here, you can read your codes yourself for free.>-->http://jeephorizons.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2719
Different people do things differently. I'm an old fart, and believe in the occasional use of the bottled additive in the tank. I have used Turbo-Blue racing gas in my turbo cars and it leaves a deposit on the valves and plugs up the injectors. I have never successfully removed and cleaned the fuel injectors. I simply replace them. But that's me, you do it your way.
Different people do things differently. I'm an old fart, and believe in the occasional use of the bottled additive in the tank. I have used Turbo-Blue racing gas in my turbo cars and it leaves a deposit on the valves and plugs up the injectors. I have never successfully removed and cleaned the fuel injectors. I simply replace them. But that's me, you do it your way.
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Yes I can buy the Injector Cleaner bottles.. But I want to clean the injectors first since I believe cleaning them myself would be a better job than using an aftermarket injector cleaner, which I believe wouldn't be much effective.
So should I just remove the injectors, spray the carb cleaner on them to remove the dirt outside.. then I put them in a pan full of carb cleaner and let them stay their for a few mins.. dry them off, use new o-rings and lube them before fitting them. And thats it?
So should I just remove the injectors, spray the carb cleaner on them to remove the dirt outside.. then I put them in a pan full of carb cleaner and let them stay their for a few mins.. dry them off, use new o-rings and lube them before fitting them. And thats it?

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I won't be sending them to any mechanic, I would just be cleaning them and putting them back and see the difference.. I don't think any of my injectors are bad
We'll see, and oh, are injectors, kinda universal? I mean, I cannot get a specific cherokee injector here in Pakistan, like would a toyota's petrol injector fit it, for example?
We'll see, and oh, are injectors, kinda universal? I mean, I cannot get a specific cherokee injector here in Pakistan, like would a toyota's petrol injector fit it, for example?


