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gofastman
12-18-2006, 01:00 PM
besides a few bottles of Techron in the gas ;)
I cant send them to a place like RC Eng. because I'm broke as shit (going to school soon).
is there any good, safe way to clean them at home, such as some carb cleaner and a tooth brush? I know they are obviously some what fragile.
FWIW its a Jeep Cherokee 5.2 V8
niterydr
12-18-2006, 01:03 PM
Just send them out.
We use a place that charges like $20 an injector and we get them back within 3 days usually.
scheides
12-18-2006, 01:09 PM
Manley Cycle in Minneapolis, call them up, stop by, get breakfast somewhere, pick them up, done and done.
Goat Blower
12-18-2006, 01:23 PM
It would be easier to send them out. You can do it but you'd have to set up a test rig that would energize the injector and have it hooked up to a high pressure liquid source and run a fuel detergent through it. More work than it's worth, that's why you send them out. Plus you get an actual flow rating before and after from each injector. Nice info to have and it ends up balancing them a bit as well.
gofastman
12-18-2006, 01:25 PM
Manley Cycle in Minneapolis, call them up, stop by, get breakfast somewhere, pick them up, done and done.
how much do they get?
A//// Guy
12-18-2006, 01:26 PM
Theres a place on Lake street, its a motorcycle shop that does cleaning. Ive had a set done there before. Its called Manley Cycle, there is a place in savage I think too.

Blah didnt hit send fast enough and scheides beat me lol.

Call them up and see what they quote you. Probably around 20 per injector. They have a website too, so search for that.
niterydr
12-18-2006, 01:27 PM
Manley Cycle? Shit if I can get this done locally, I'll just do it there.
gofastman
12-18-2006, 01:39 PM
thing is, I'm really not prepaired to spend more than ~$30...
I was just wondering if there are any simple tricks to clean them, but I guess ill just wate a while and get them done the right way when I can afford it
scheides
12-18-2006, 01:46 PM
Josh, you guys out in the boonies need to realize that Minneapolis is local, not BFE :) Manley is like 10 mins from me.

Local to you is like visiting canada for the weekend for me. Heh!
Kracka
12-18-2006, 01:51 PM
thing is, I'm really not prepaired to spend more than ~$30...
I was just wondering if there are any simple tricks to clean them, but I guess ill just wate a while and get them done the right way when I can afford it

Just dump in a bottle of Chevron Techron then, its the best you're going to get w/o actually sending them somewhere.