[Vwdiesel] Injector Seals

[Stephen Kraus]

I have reused them successfully before, its just more likely to fail down
the road

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Dave Cook <davevw at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Someone please tell me it is ok to reuse injector seals!
>
> I am very close to having the engine hooked up!  It is all bolted into the
> car, just working on hooking up fuel, coolant, clutch, etc etc lines and
> wires.  If possible, I might be able to crank it tonight!
>
> I noted when I was cranking over the engine that I could hear compression
> leaking around number 1 injector.  So I went to tighten it and it was only
> finger tight.  Well, all the other injectors are also loose so I popped them
> out to take a quick look.  All were ok, but I kinda thought the seals needed
> to be new every time they were installed.  Good thing I checked, though, as
> number 4 didn't have a seal in there at all!
>
> I could pull a seal out of another head, assuming that is ok to do...
>
> I could get some tomorrow afternoon probably, but have to work late
> tomorrow and Tuesday so it will be a few more days before I could try to
> start it, and I'm rather impatient!
>
> Dave Cook
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