Running like a Swiss watch!
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Racer
Joined: Apr 2001
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From: Gig Harbor WA
Running like a Swiss watch!
After the injector change, my wife and I took advantage of the 75°-80°F weather today and drove 135 miles top down around Hood Canal, WA today.
We stopped at the Hood sport winery and filled the spaces under the roof with bottles of pinot gris, reisling & rhubarb wine. We stopped at Dosewallips state park to visit friends camped there (and emptied a couple of those bottles) then crossed the Hood canal floating bridge to come back home.
Elwood (our blue '89 convertible) ran like a Neil Diamond song all day. I couldn't be happier.
We stopped at the Hood sport winery and filled the spaces under the roof with bottles of pinot gris, reisling & rhubarb wine. We stopped at Dosewallips state park to visit friends camped there (and emptied a couple of those bottles) then crossed the Hood canal floating bridge to come back home.
Elwood (our blue '89 convertible) ran like a Neil Diamond song all day. I couldn't be happier.
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Racer
Joined: Apr 2001
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From: Gig Harbor WA
It died at a light. After I couldn't restart it, I had it towed to the local mechanic.
He reported one injector with extremely low resistance and another couple with marginal ohm readings. Then he told me he would need $1.000 for new injectors -plus four hours labor at $175/hour to change them.
I came to this forum and read up on injectors and their problems. I went back to the mechanic's to try to start it and drive it home. It wouldn't start.
Armed with the knowledge from this forum, I asked him to pop off the electrical plug from the bad injector. He did, it started right up and I peeled out of his shop on seven injectors.
I bought a set of rebuilt injectors from Jon at FIC. They sat on the seat for a year until I figured out my son was likely not going to change them for me. My handyman and I changed out the injectors in about six hours actual work. More than that if you include the futzing around, one false start and a lot of thinking about what to do next.
It started right up after the change and the rest is history! I just wanted to throw a little good news in amongst the multiple problems guys are having with their C4's/ There is light at the end of the tunnel.
He reported one injector with extremely low resistance and another couple with marginal ohm readings. Then he told me he would need $1.000 for new injectors -plus four hours labor at $175/hour to change them.
I came to this forum and read up on injectors and their problems. I went back to the mechanic's to try to start it and drive it home. It wouldn't start.
Armed with the knowledge from this forum, I asked him to pop off the electrical plug from the bad injector. He did, it started right up and I peeled out of his shop on seven injectors.
I bought a set of rebuilt injectors from Jon at FIC. They sat on the seat for a year until I figured out my son was likely not going to change them for me. My handyman and I changed out the injectors in about six hours actual work. More than that if you include the futzing around, one false start and a lot of thinking about what to do next.
It started right up after the change and the rest is history! I just wanted to throw a little good news in amongst the multiple problems guys are having with their C4's/ There is light at the end of the tunnel.
