Noticed a strong gas smell today on my way home from work. Popped the hood and noticed one of my injectors is wet. What's up with that?

 

o ring is bad if the wet is fuel

 

Yeah it is. Anyone know of a kit? Autozone has nothing.

 

OEM... get them from the dealer.

 

They don't have them in stock but napa does. $2.70 for each injector. Not bad I guess.

 

Be sure to lube the o-rings up with some vasoline before re-installing the injector into the fuel rail, otherwise you'll rip the new o-ring.

 

A rebuild kit might not solve your problem depending on the source of the leak. Usually if a top o-ring goes bad the leak will be pretty bad because of the high pressure behind the rings at that point. The older XJ injectors are known to develope a leak where the plastic top is mated to the metal body and often you'll see that it looks "wet" because it is seeping thru a hairline gap. If that's the case you'll need to change the injector. One of the advantages of doing the injector "upgrade" is that the newer plastic bodied injectors are a one piece design and it eliminates that problem.
Just clean it good and then let it run and see if it appears to be leaking from the top o-ring or elsewhere.

 

Good to know, I will look at that tomorrow. I am wanting to do the 703's just not quite ready. May not have a choice now.

 

Looks like it's coming from the top. Can these be rebuilt or should I be trying to scrap together some funds for 703's

 

If it's from the very top (fuel rail) then it's the o-ring. They can be rebuilt but by the time you buy a rebuild kit you already spent half the price of a set of 703's or something similar. I MIGHT still have a set of stock XJ injectors laying around my place I rebuilt once just to put them back in and see what the MPG difference was. If I still have them and can find them I can let you have them cheap. I'll look around tomorrow.

 

What can I expect to pay for 703's?

 

i paid 30 dollars for all six from the jy

 

Wow. I was thinking $100 or so.