Pagoda SL Group
W113 Pagoda SL Group => Drive train, fuel, suspension, steering & brakes => Topic started by: lurtch on June 02, 2014, 19:12:35
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Hi All,
On a beautiful sunny day last week I fired up to meet a friend for lunch. My Pagoda informed me that - - NO we are not leaving the driveway.
Of course, the first thing I did when I got the time was pull the plugs. The #1 plug had an obvious sheen to it and smelled of raw fuel. Having had prior experience
with fouled injectors on this engine, I pulled the #1.
After smacking it down on the workbench four or five times, you can plainly see the grit that was dislodged. Mystery solved.
Last year I installed a new Metric Motors engine. During the 6 months or so the injection pipes were open to the atmosphere, I neglected to fill them with preservative oil
like I knew I should. Oh well - - lesson learned.
Hope this helps one of you someday.
Larry in CA
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How the hell did that get in there?!
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all I can figure is that if they will rust on the outside they will also rust on the inside - - -
Larry
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It may be just debrie/dirt entered one tube and not a flake of rust. The tube ends are normally pointing down. I've stored mine for a short time opennings down but I blew them out with air to make sure I didn't drown any spiders or earwigs on restart. There is an integral filter at the inlet side of the injectors if I remember correctly. So you should be good shape to inspect and clean the inlet. I would run a medium gauge copper wire (like telephone 18 to 22 guage) down the pipes pulling a cloth sprip with gun cleaning oil through each tube. If no rust on the cloth, no worries. I think the outside of the tubes are in a plating-harsh environment and exposed to rubbing and wellmeaning attemps at cleaning. That is why they tend to loose the plating.