HELP: injector air shroud cone came off

[DeWitt Harrison]

If the thing has not actually fallen into the manifold, there may be
hope of devising a clever "tool" to extract it. The piece has a flange
around its upper end which is normally captured between a machined
lip in the injector hole and the brass insert. I believe there is a thin
fiber washer in this little stack-up also. Anyway, there may be nothing
holding it now except years of accumulated, baked on grime. If you
can devise something to stick down the hole which would expand
slightly after it passed completely through the shroud, you may be
able to just pull it right out. Maybe a simple hook of some kind.
Note that since the thing is fairly brittle, it must be treated gently.
The downside is you may risk leaving a piece of your "tool" or broken up
bits of the shroud in the manifold necessitating further disassembly.
I might be tempted to try fashioning a treble hook out of coat hanger
wire or something of the sort. A pilot bearing puller might be
tiny enough to reach through the shroud too.

DeWitt Harrison
1988 5kcstq
Boulder, CO

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:54:42 -0400, Konstantin Bogach wrote:

 > probably I explained not right but what is stuck in the head is plastic
 > cone(lower insert, according to ETKA)  which is snaped onto brass 
insert(upper
 > insert).
 >
 > Konstantin Bogach.
 >
 > JShadzi at aol.com wrote:
 >>
 >> Use a long magnet to fish it out, you will have to remove the brass insert
 >> from the head to give you more clearance, then just pop it back on the
 >> injector or buy a new one to be safe.