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Old 03-07-2012, 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by salad
Visibly leaking? As in, there's gas all over the intake manifold? Man, I hope you have a fire extinguisher!
Not all over, a little bit. I do have one at hand just in case.
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Looks like you need to take your injectors out, clean em and get new o rings, but first check the resistance with a multimeter. Hopefully someone can chime in with the proper resistance for the injectors. Dont start any fires bro, fdny is gonna start chargin service calls lol.

You should change your oil and do a compression check as well.
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Used engine?

Just Empty Every Pocket

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Originally Posted by Crispy
Looks like you need to take your injectors out, clean em and get new o rings, but first check the resistance with a multimeter. Hopefully someone can chime in with the proper resistance for the injectors. Dont start any fires bro, fdny is gonna start chargin service calls lol.

You should change your oil and do a compression check as well.
injectors should be at 12ohms. Stop driving it, ride a bike down to Autozone and get a couple boxes of injector o-rings ($3 a box I think) - you need 12 o-rings total. Pull the injectors, clean them (internally), test them, and put the new o-rings on. Use a little fresh, clean oil to lube the 0-rings before putting the injectors back into the fuel rail. Make sure they're seated well and bolt everything up.
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Originally Posted by no rdplz
injectors should be at 12ohms. Stop driving it, ride a bike down to Autozone and get a couple boxes of injector o-rings ($3 a box I think) - you need 12 o-rings total. Pull the injectors, clean them (internally), test them, and put the new o-rings on. Use a little fresh, clean oil to lube the 0-rings before putting the injectors back into the fuel rail. Make sure they're seated well and bolt everything up.
My injectors were 14ohms iirc

Why 12 o rings?
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Originally Posted by NYsNumba1Man
Why 12 o rings?
2 orings per injector x 6 injectors= 12
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Originally Posted by fishtaconc
2 orings per injector x 6 injectors= 12
Hey! Maybe he didn't put enough O-rings in when he converted. That's why he has gasoline leaking into the oil?
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The guy I got it off of didn't know anything about cars.
The shop he had it at probably did everything half assed which is why it was in the condition it was in.
Running water as coolant. Bell housing half unbolted and swinging around, literally nothing worked.
I wouldn't be surprised if they reused the 17 year old o rings.
I might as well just swap in new injectors and o rings. I already got my o rings from the stealer ship for 5 bucks. Picking up the oil pressure sending unit for 57 tomorrow.
I'll probably rent a compression tester soon enough.
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might as well upgrade injectors while you at it
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Dude if you have gas getting into the crankcase, you most likely have an injector staying open and its continuously dumping fuel into the cylinder after engine shutdown. An o ring will not solve that. You have a bad injector, or several. The only thing an o ring will fix is an air leak at the intake manifold side or gas leaking onto the manifold at the fuel rail side. If its leaking at the fuel rail, you need to fix that immediately otherwise youll be driving a Jeep FIREBALL. Best bet is to replace the injector(s) with KNOWN good ones which will require replacing the o rings as well. Also, if you didnt have a rings installed or had damaged o rings, it wouldnt run because of airleaks. (Been there, done that many many years ago)
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Im mid repair now. I finished the oil filter adapter o rings. They looked pretty good.... The sender unit was really what was leaking bad and I'm about to finish tightening it. Is there a certain torque spec so I don't break it?
I'm doing the o rings on the injectors too, the old ones were BAAAAAD. and filthy.
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Originally Posted by lookin2wheel
Dude if you have gas getting into the crankcase, you most likely have an injector staying open and its continuously dumping fuel into the cylinder after engine shutdown. An o ring will not solve that. You have a bad injector, or several. The only thing an o ring will fix is an air leak at the intake manifold side or gas leaking onto the manifold at the fuel rail side. If its leaking at the fuel rail, you need to fix that immediately otherwise youll be driving a Jeep FIREBALL. Best bet is to replace the injector(s) with KNOWN good ones which will require replacing the o rings as well. Also, if you didnt have a rings installed or had damaged o rings, it wouldnt run because of airleaks. (Been there, done that many many years ago)
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Injectors need to be 12 ohms or higher. Don't worry if they are like 12.8 or something
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Originally Posted by lookin2wheel
Dude if you have gas getting into the crankcase, you most likely have an injector staying open and its continuously dumping fuel into the cylinder after engine shutdown. An o ring will not solve that. You have a bad injector, or several. The only thing an o ring will fix is an air leak at the intake manifold side or gas leaking onto the manifold at the fuel rail side. If its leaking at the fuel rail, you need to fix that immediately otherwise youll be driving a Jeep FIREBALL. Best bet is to replace the injector(s) with KNOWN good ones which will require replacing the o rings as well. Also, if you didnt have a rings installed or had damaged o rings, it wouldnt run because of airleaks. (Been there, done that many many years ago)
Finished up everything. My oil leaks are pretty much gone. Only thing left is the rear main seal and thats BARELY leaking at all.
I don't smell or see any gas getting into my oil now, i was just being paranoid

As i removed each injector i jumpered and cleaned them with carb cleaner. None of them are leaking at all. They were just filthy.


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