Here I am all ready with my comment about how I wondered how you were going to handle that passenger bank problem injector, then ask how hard it was to get the solenoid back on correctly, the ask if you thought you could have beaten the firewall enough before you took off the valve cover to clearance the removal. I was also going to compliment you on your camera work.. then then the end came and I could feel your pain. What a bummer. Looking forward to the resolution.
Thanks! Removing the solenoid on #3 really wasn't difficult. Putting the solenoid back on the new one after installation was a little bit of a pain because it was really difficult to hold the torx bit down while wrenching on it. I got it to click on three of the four screws, and the other one felt equally tight but the bit kept popping off before the torque wrench clicked. Hopefully good enough. Spoiler alert, I got the van running again and overall am really happy about the whole project. I'll post the second part with what actually fixed in a couple of days.
Awesome video thanks for sharing!!! Im going to be doing the same project soon +hpop and lift pump. Why didn't you do your injector cups while you had everything out? Looking forward to the update
I considered doing injector cups and did a ton of reading. Forum posts are split pretty evenly between "do it all now so you don't have to later" and "if it ain't broke don't fix it". I think that doing injector cups would have taken me a lot more time and from what I understand can be really difficult in a van without pulling the engine. So I'm in the "ain't broke" crowd. Hopefully that doesn't come back to bite me!
@@PowerstrokeEconoline riffraff sells/rents a tool to do the injector cups pretty easily with the engine still in, my buddy rented it and said it was a life saver and did the cups in a day. I wasn't going to do mine but unfortunately I have a crack in one of them so I'm just going to replace them all.
@@asalvanoRosewood also has a tool. Did your buddy do cups on a truck or van? The issue I was concerned about is just being able to reach in there to clean out the old adhesive, particularly on #1 and #3. I was on a bit of a time crunch also; if you have time then it would probably be more doable.
@@PowerstrokeEconoline he did it in a van, and to clean out the old adhesive he used an electric ratcheting wrench and connected a wire brush to it. That's what I'm going to do seems like it would be easier than trying to clean it by hand. The only thing I'm concerned about is I don't have a driveway or garage to do it in so I'm going to be doing it on the side of the road.
Here I am all ready with my comment about how I wondered how you were going to handle that passenger bank problem injector, then ask how hard it was to get the solenoid back on correctly, the ask if you thought you could have beaten the firewall enough before you took off the valve cover to clearance the removal. I was also going to compliment you on your camera work.. then then the end came and I could feel your pain. What a bummer. Looking forward to the resolution.
Thanks! Removing the solenoid on #3 really wasn't difficult. Putting the solenoid back on the new one after installation was a little bit of a pain because it was really difficult to hold the torx bit down while wrenching on it. I got it to click on three of the four screws, and the other one felt equally tight but the bit kept popping off before the torque wrench clicked. Hopefully good enough.
Spoiler alert, I got the van running again and overall am really happy about the whole project. I'll post the second part with what actually fixed in a couple of days.
Awesome video thanks for sharing!!! Im going to be doing the same project soon +hpop and lift pump. Why didn't you do your injector cups while you had everything out? Looking forward to the update
I considered doing injector cups and did a ton of reading. Forum posts are split pretty evenly between "do it all now so you don't have to later" and "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
I think that doing injector cups would have taken me a lot more time and from what I understand can be really difficult in a van without pulling the engine. So I'm in the "ain't broke" crowd. Hopefully that doesn't come back to bite me!
@@PowerstrokeEconoline riffraff sells/rents a tool to do the injector cups pretty easily with the engine still in, my buddy rented it and said it was a life saver and did the cups in a day. I wasn't going to do mine but unfortunately I have a crack in one of them so I'm just going to replace them all.
@@asalvanoRosewood also has a tool. Did your buddy do cups on a truck or van? The issue I was concerned about is just being able to reach in there to clean out the old adhesive, particularly on #1 and #3. I was on a bit of a time crunch also; if you have time then it would probably be more doable.
@@PowerstrokeEconoline he did it in a van, and to clean out the old adhesive he used an electric ratcheting wrench and connected a wire brush to it. That's what I'm going to do seems like it would be easier than trying to clean it by hand.
The only thing I'm concerned about is I don't have a driveway or garage to do it in so I'm going to be doing it on the side of the road.