jsut put in a new FPR and now i cant get the injectors back into rail. wast the best way to get them in??????

 

push.... I dont recall there being any secret.

 

Are you saying the rails are off the engine, you have 8 loose injectors in your hands, and the individual injectors won't go into the holes in the rails?

Or are you saying you left the injectors in the manifold and popped the rails off the injectors to remove them, and now you can't line up all 8 injectors to get them to fit in the rail holes at the same time?

An aside - why did you remove the injectors from the rails to change the FPR, or better yet, why even remove the rails to change the FPR?

 

im pushing... they aren't moving

 

all 8 injectors of off totaly.. i romoved them the change the fuel pressure regulator. i didn't see any other way of doing this.

 

Did you change the O-rings?

Make sure the O-rings aren't stuck inside the fuel rail.

If they are, pull them out, lube them up and put them back on the injector before you re-install the injector on the rail.

 

A shot of WD-40 to the o-rings will allow the injectors to slide with no problem.

 

use some dielectric grease on the o-rings. They will slip right in.

 

i used 10W-30 went right in.. thanks

 

I hear tranny fluid works great.
Is there a way to change the FPR without removing the rail? I was going to do this soon and I thought you had to remove the rails.

 

Oil and tranny fluid will soak into the oring and may make it a PITA to get out next time, thats why i like the dielectric grease. I know the next time I take out the injectors I won't be replacing o rings

Bill

 

You can also use a little vasoline on the o-rings.

 

You need to do five things to remove the FPR, with the rails on the car. 1) Release the fuel pressure at the Schrader. 2) Pull the vacuum line off. 3) Get a T-27 torx socket, reach back behind the manifold and take the single screw out that holds the FPR to tha manifold. 4) Release the single screw that holds the two hard lines in the clamp, right next to the line connectors. 5) Pull the spring clip off that holds the hard line to the FPR.

I've done it this way 1/2-dozen times, inculding a couple where my 4-point shock tower brace was still in place. Not easy to reach the screw for the FPR or the screw for the fuel line bracket, but it is possible, and seems a lot easier than removing the rails.

Even if you remove the rails to do it, you don't need to remove the injectors. Leave the clips on the top, and pop the fuel rails up, and the injectors out of the manifold, one side at a time. Easier to do if you pull up on the right hand rail from the left side of the engine, and vice-a-versa.

another thought... do not use a "solid" like dielectic grease or Vaseline. You do not want a gob of this to get into the injector. A very light coating of engine oil, on the outside edge of the o-rin only, is all that is needed.