Hi everyone,
Just making a post on here to figure out what is the best course of action for my problem.
I have a 1999 P38 with the M51 diesel. I sent away its injectors to be refurbished by a reputable company, they cleaned them, installed new nozzles and tested them.
I just spent the morning installing them, they work great and the engine runs well.
About 5 mins later, I notice diesel on the joint between the upper and lower half of the no.1 injector collecting. I then inspected the rest of the injectors and pretty much every single one was leaking from this area.
I have checked the fuel pipes and leak off pipes... It is not leaking from these - very specifically from the joining of the upper and lower half of the injector.
I turned the engine off, wiped down the injectors, and sure enough in about 2-3 mins of running there was diesel leaking out from the same area again.
At this stage I can only assume that this is the fault of the rebuilder, I literally just took them out of the box and stuck them in.
What is the best course of action here? I'm assuming the company will take them back and fix them but what's to say they do it right the next time? (for reference, none of them were leaking before hand, I just heard it was part of good maintenance to have them refurbed every 60k miles - since mines got 230k I figured it was about TIME they got refreshed!)
Is there anything I'm missing here, from what I have researched - if they are leaking from this area there is nothing else that can be done other than removing them and taking apart again etc.
Just a bit frustrated as I really went to the trouble of finding the best, most well rated diesel engineering specialist to have this work done and straight away they are leaking. It took me 3 hours to get them installed and it looks like I'm going to have to take it all apart again, along with having the P38 sitting up for at least a week
I have attached some pics for reference.
Just making a post on here to figure out what is the best course of action for my problem.
I have a 1999 P38 with the M51 diesel. I sent away its injectors to be refurbished by a reputable company, they cleaned them, installed new nozzles and tested them.
I just spent the morning installing them, they work great and the engine runs well.
About 5 mins later, I notice diesel on the joint between the upper and lower half of the no.1 injector collecting. I then inspected the rest of the injectors and pretty much every single one was leaking from this area.
I have checked the fuel pipes and leak off pipes... It is not leaking from these - very specifically from the joining of the upper and lower half of the injector.
I turned the engine off, wiped down the injectors, and sure enough in about 2-3 mins of running there was diesel leaking out from the same area again.
At this stage I can only assume that this is the fault of the rebuilder, I literally just took them out of the box and stuck them in.
What is the best course of action here? I'm assuming the company will take them back and fix them but what's to say they do it right the next time? (for reference, none of them were leaking before hand, I just heard it was part of good maintenance to have them refurbed every 60k miles - since mines got 230k I figured it was about TIME they got refreshed!)
Is there anything I'm missing here, from what I have researched - if they are leaking from this area there is nothing else that can be done other than removing them and taking apart again etc.
Just a bit frustrated as I really went to the trouble of finding the best, most well rated diesel engineering specialist to have this work done and straight away they are leaking. It took me 3 hours to get them installed and it looks like I'm going to have to take it all apart again, along with having the P38 sitting up for at least a week
I have attached some pics for reference.