HELP. oil very black and smells like gas
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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.
You should change your oil and do a compression check as well.
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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.
You should change your oil and do a compression check as well.
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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.
Why 12 o rings?
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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.
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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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.
I'm doing the o rings on the injectors too, the old ones were BAAAAAD. and filthy.
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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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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)
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.