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Gunslinger
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I did mention it to a friend of mine (who builds engines for a hobby), and he suggested possibly an injector that sticks when it's cold, based on my description.
"It only does it when it hasn't run for a few days, but not consistently so."
Unfortunately, #6 is completely inaccessible due to the intake, so I'd have to take it off. My father suggested the intake gasket having a minor hole in it that closes up when the engine heats up, thus expanding and squishing the gasket enough so that it seals back up.
I'm thinking about getting a new intake gasket, taking out the injector and swapping it with cylinder #1, which is the easiest to get to and doesn't (seem to) require removing anything else to get to it. Since I have to take the intake off anyway, and the gasket is the original, I figure it makes sense to do.
My thought process being, if the problem goes away and never comes back, it was likely the gasket. If the problem moves to #1, then I know the injector is bad, but yet I don't have to pull off that intake again.
Does this seem like a bad idea, swapping injectors? Is it a bad idea to only replace one injector, if it does turn out to be going bad? I'd like to replace all six, but at $40 a whack (rockauto), I'd like to also save some money. One of those cases where you spend enough to fix it right, but not overspend unnecessarily. Now if they were $20, then I might.
Any opinions on junkyard injectors?
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