What Are Sypmtoms of a Bad Fuel Injector?

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02-15-2002, 06:18 PM

max808

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What Are Symptoms of a Bad Fuel Injector?

Anyone had a bad fuel injector? What a beginning symptoms?

02-15-2002, 08:26 PM

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Engine is rough and slight loss of power. I had one go out. My wife didn;t even notice. I could tell a loss of power and rough idle - computer told me injector bad. It was right...

02-15-2002, 10:49 PM

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Check engine light.

You should know something is wrong.

02-16-2002, 09:14 AM

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hesitation/stumble/loss of power would be the most notable. It'll seem as if the engine is running on 5 cylinders.

02-16-2002, 09:39 AM

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Re: Check engine light.

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Originally posted by 1MAX2NV
You should know something is wrong.

When my number 3 injector was faulty, my check engine light never went on...
My car just hesitated big time, major loss of power and sounded like a mustang's V8 with loud exhaust sputtering.

02-16-2002, 09:42 AM

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what others said.... I had an injector failure on my old max. I think I had 2 of them now that I think of it... But acceleration suffered a lot, even my fuel economy was down a little bit, maybe it was just very clogged and dirty, and wasn't spraying right.

02-16-2002, 10:49 AM

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Hmmm...

i wonder if i might be suffering from this. I'm just hitting my 60K tune-up. When i floor my car there is some bad hesitation and its not totally consistant. Someitmes it will hesitate @ lower RPMs, and sometimes around 4-5s....
What do you guys think?