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I have bad injectors on my 2001 F350 with the 7.3 liter. I was wondering if anyone new of a place to get rebuilt injectors or if I could get a kit and do it myself. Also I was wondering how hard it is to remove and install the injectors myself and how hard is it to rebuild them. I am pretty much wondering if it is worth the butt load of money to have someone do it.
Rosewood diesel sells a kit to do it yourself. I rebuilt/ modified mine myself. It is a little tedious, but not really difficult. In my oppinion, it is worth your time to save the extra money. If you are worried about down time, it took me about 12 hours to remove, rebuild, and replace the injectors. For a quicker turn around, new or rebuilt injectors are the way to go.
These things look complicated, but if your careful and have the right tools it looks doable. A kit like mentioned above would probably your best DIY route
Thanks for all you help guys. The truck takes about 3 rounds of cranking in the morning when it is first fired an I am in southern california so it never gets cold. then you have to keep your foot in to the gas for about 2 minutes before it will run in its own. Then you can't drive it for about a half an hour because it won't go over 10 MPH. It is a company truck and they took it into the dealer and they said it had 4 bad injectors and 2 that were not looking healthy. But the price was way to high for them so they said to just let it warm up a long time before driving it. So I told my work that I could change them as long as they got new injectors. so I am searching for the cheapest way for them.
When was the last time the oil was changed?
I'm not disputing the dealer's report, but it has been reported that an oil change makes a huge difference sometimes.
Especially if there are a lot of miles on the oil.
Thanks for all you help guys. The truck takes about 3 rounds of cranking in the morning when it is first fired an I am in southern california so it never gets cold. then you have to keep your foot in to the gas for about 2 minutes before it will run in its own. Then you can't drive it for about a half an hour because it won't go over 10 MPH. It is a company truck and they took it into the dealer and they said it had 4 bad injectors and 2 that were not looking healthy. But the price was way to high for them so they said to just let it warm up a long time before driving it. So I told my work that I could change them as long as they got new injectors. so I am searching for the cheapest way for them.
Hey i'm in socal also. Where about are you? I replaced mine for a similar issue. I replaced 1 injector and all was fine for a little while. I found a set of 8 on ebay factory ford remans for a great price and ended up replacing the other 7 injectors. While i was there i replaced all glow plugs and under valve cover harness as well. The dealer i took mine to for diag wanted almost $5k to replace the injectors!!
Hey i'm in socal also. Where about are you? I replaced mine for a similar issue. I replaced 1 injector and all was fine for a little while. I found a set of 8 on ebay factory ford remans for a great price and ended up replacing the other 7 injectors. While i was there i replaced all glow plugs and under valve cover harness as well. The dealer i took mine to for diag wanted almost $5k to replace the injectors!!
I'd say for 5k pull the engine and put a 12 valve cummins it lol
If it does come down to the injectors and you want to rebuild yourself - Jim (Rosewood Diesel) is a very good man to work with and he'll anwere any & all questions in my experience.
If it is hard to start when its cold then your poppets are wore out. In this case it will be useless to rebuild them yourself and if they are bad enough it is better just to get some new injs. It will depend on how bad the poppets are worn, they can be machined back into shape but not always. Definetly not the job for a DIYer on fixin those.