Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

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

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

Just send them out.
We use a place that charges like $20 an injector and we get them back within 3 days usually.

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

Manley Cycle in Minneapolis, call them up, stop by, get breakfast somewhere, pick them up, done and done.

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

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.

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

how much do they get?

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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.

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

Manley Cycle? Shit if I can get this done locally, I'll just do it there.

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

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

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

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!

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

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

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

I really don't know if it does any good, but I've put a 9 volt battery to them so they open up and sprayed cleaner in.

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

MPLS is only 20 minutes away or so...

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

You might be able to get a cleaner that attaches to the fuel rail. It wont be 30 dollars but you will have it for ever once you buy it.

It hooks up to the schrader valve on the rail.

Otherwise, carquest carries a cleaner that you dump in the tank. It is made by 3M and costs about $20. A few co-workers have used it and they claim it works great.

My assistant manager was a Jeep tech up til a year ago, I will ask him if he has any other pointers. What year jeep btw?

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

Does this place in the Twin Cities balance them too or just clean the injectors?

Re: Is there any way to clean fuel injectors at home?
 

Correct me if I am wrong but I am not sure if you can really balance them. Most places that I have heard of test, clean, and measure them. They dont have a way of correcting them if there is a difference between them. That is usually done at the factory during the production.

Maybe I need to look further into how they actually function?