Quick and Simple ?

[phil_long]

Have no time to do the work myself.  Throwing the car in the shop tonight, and I'm getting it back out tomorrow.  Let you know how things go with it.

[Steve Wood]

what work?  should not you figure out what is wrong first?

[Steve Wood]

If it is the leaking o ring...conside r what it costs you to fix it as opposed to spending $290 for a new set and a matching chip and spending two hours of your time if you bitch a lot! 

[phil_long]

You make a great point there my good sir. My hurry to fix the o-ring(or whatever the problem may be) told me to jus have the guy look at it. He's also going to test the flow of all the injectors for me. My luck lately have sucked, and im kinda pressed for time. I pick the car up tomorrow. Just got back from dropping it off. I've been driving it a lot due to me and the wife's sched. I fig'd one night and a little money was worth more than me attempting to fix myself. He also might see something i didnt. Good looking out Steve. Keep u posted on the progress. 8 pages

[Steve Wood]

LOL...testing the flow in the car is not always a good sign.  Remember Recap that was having all the problems with the car not running right, recently?  His injectors passed that test, but the thing that fixed his car was a new set of injectors after all the stuff that he replaced.....I f it cost you more than $100, then you have too much disposable income and you need another woman to help you spend it! 

[phil_long]

Hahahahahaha. Trust me, NOT the case. Lol. But i really need the car up and running, and if fixing that o-ring is done correct right by a mechanic, thats the route i had to take. And Steve, my one year anniversary is coming up n a year for my marriage. My money been gone. right now im PRAYING that this fixing majority of the issues. Gonna see if he can weld up my exhaust while its there. :-) and i got that gauge today. Let u kno when i get to testing again. Thanks again for everything

[earlbrown]

Phil, didn't you post that your injectors are original?  If so I've already tested them and have your results....   

[Steve Wood]

It should fix the leak, but, I don't see how it is going to fix any problems.  Unless he is going to put the injectors on an injector cleaning machine, and then flow test them afterward.  Then you are up to $200 bucks or so and a new set of injectors and a modern chip really start to look good.  Hard to justify putting that kinda money into a 25 year old set of injectors that could fail day after tomorrow....

I believe in determining what the problems really are, and then spending money.

[phil_long]

Yeah Steve, thats exactly what he's doing. I want to keep the car as stock as possible for now. I understand your point of not investing money into the old set, but had i bought that combo, i wouldnt have gotten it installed anytime soon and i still would be without a vehicle, due to the leaking injector. Even if these injectors fail in two months, at least i will have the money then to do what i want. Im pinching pennies and need the car now with no time work on it.

[phil_long]

Phil, didn't you post that your injectors are original?  If so I've already tested them and have your results....   

[phil_long]

Lol

[Steve Wood]

Me, I would have the new set overnighted to me at a bit extra cost, and then had them installed if I did not have two hours to do the swap.  I did not realized you could not wait two days because you had to drive the car

I just have a thing with spending good money after bad.  I guess that comes from being old and having done it too many times in my younger days? 

Maybe you can refuse delivery on the fp gauge I sent you and save some money on the return shipping

[phil_long]

Lol. Im not THAT down and out. Im gonna ship it UPS thru my job. Probably wont cost me much of anything. My injectors failed the flow test by quite a but. The guy said he think that the gauge i have on the car now is wrong. Im going to compare yours after i get back from this funeral. The car runs A LOT better. Im actually pretty excited and feel that we are on the right track. Keep you guys posted

[phil_long]

Ok, so i just the other FP gauge sent to me by Steve. According to Steve's gauge, my FP is set at 23 lbs line on, 30 line off. The other gauge i took off was reading 44 lbs line on, 52 lbs wit line off. Thats scary

[phil_long]

If his gauge is reading correctly, that would explain why my car is running dead lean.