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Old Jan 1, 2012 | 01:08 PM
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How long and difficult will it be to replace the injector cups? I'm under the assumption that 1 or more is leaking coolant and pushing it through the lower valve cover...anyone ever heard of this?

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Old Jan 4, 2012 | 03:20 PM
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The same time involved for changing injectors

I would check balance rates first so if you have one or two injectors going south you can kill two birds with one stone.
 
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Old Jan 4, 2012 | 03:20 PM
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If you've done it before 8-11 hours depending if you have egr or not.
 
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Old Jan 4, 2012 | 03:21 PM
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Took me most of a weekend my first time.
 
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Old Jan 4, 2012 | 03:59 PM
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should take 4-6 hours, what makes you think the cups are leaking?
 
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Old Jan 4, 2012 | 04:45 PM
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Do you get fuel in your oil? And in the cooling system? You should also have some what sweet smelling white smoke if they are bad enough. And im with fox2boost. i would make sure the injectors test out well before you do the cups to kill 2 birds at once. And if they test out good then you can get new cups and use a merchant install kit like this one below.
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Old Jan 5, 2012 | 10:26 PM
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Injectors are all good, I got them replaced about 6 months ago. I'm thinkingn that one of the cups isn't seated right now and its causing coolant to leak. Just recently I noticed a little by the egr cooler, so I think I'm gonna block off or remove the cooler completely and see if this fixes it. Any suggestions???

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Old Jan 7, 2012 | 01:38 AM
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Originally Posted by MillerBoyzDiesel
should take 4-6 hours, what makes you think the cups are leaking?
I would really like to see you torque everything correctly and have it back together in 4-6 hours.
 
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 10:31 AM
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well stop by sometime and ill show ya
 
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 04:19 PM
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Keep typing.
 
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