Okay, I want to vent about how hard Bosch sucks. My car was running crappy. The symptoms are that it wouldn't accelerate when cold (or rev in neutral) and when warm it hesitated during acceleration until it hit about 1800 RPMs where it would then take off with full power. If I pushed it too hard then it would just fart & sputter. I am told that this is backfiring through the intake. BTW, my intake is all oily inside. Is this remarkable? I replaced cap, rotor, wires, plugs. Great improvement, but still not 100%. So I check how the injectors are spraying. Cylinder #5 came on rather late compared to the rest. And the rest had inconsistent spray patterns. I replaced the fuel filter & injectors and dump some brown gunk out of the warm-up regulator. I check the spray pattern again and find that cylinder #5 is still coming on late. But now cylinder #4 has a drip. It drips one drop every 5 seconds while the pump is off. These are injectors I bought from a local Bosch dealer. Since one dripped, I figured I bought a defective injector. By then I'm getting really pissed putting up with a car that doesn't run well, so I order all new stuff from DMC/Texas. Stuff from them should be perfect, huh? Their injectors didn't come in little boxes like the ones I bought locally. And the little plastic caps on the ends weren't as white & pretty either. I suppose these were old stock. I notice junk like this because I'm suspicious that the local guy sold me a few used injectors that were only cleaned up to look new. So $1000+ later a package arrives. First I install the new fuel distributor and see what happens. The problem with #5 coming on late went away. But #4 is still dripping and #1 decided to join it. At this point I'm really enjoying the shot gun approach. I spent the money; now I want bang for my buck. I put the DMC/Texas injectors on there and.... what the fuck? Now #4 doesn't come on soon enough and it only sprays about half as much volume as the others. And #1 is still dripping. Now I'm really pissed! This is new stuff, and I can't make it work. I replaced injector #4 with one of the better "new" ones bought locally, and it sprayed like it should. Yep, DMC/Texas sold me a defective injector. Should I complain to them? I tried swapping drippy injector #1 with #3 (which wasn't dripping at all), and the drip didn't follow the injector. So somehow this newly rebuilt distributor has uneven pressures which causes some of the injectors to drip? But this was also a problem with my original fuel distributor. Are dripping injectors something that I should expect from Bosch? How serious is a dripping injector? I left them sitting in test tubes letting the system pressure bleed off while I ate lunch. When I got back, one test tube had 10ml and the other had 15ml. I don't know what industry standards are for leaky injectors, but common sense tells me this kind of drip is bullshit. It makes the car hard to start. If it soaks in for too long then it drips past the rings and into the crank case. (Rich is an authority on this one.) Someone just told me that fuel in the oil pan can explode. I heard stories of blown valve covers and oil pans. And how much liquid would have to be in a cylinder to damage it? Why did Bosch even make mechanical fuel injection? Before their CIS they already had electrical fuel injection in production cars, didn't they? It's such a mess of parts. And as you can tell... Walt Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=251812.3170658.4537139.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1693353/R=0/SIG=11t71ok4g/*http://www.netflix.com/Default?mqso=6 0178294&partid=3170658> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=251812.3170658.4537139.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1693353/rand=807417731> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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