What happens if you drive with a bad fuel injector?
If you have one or more faulty fuel injectors — due to wear or mechanical or electrical issues, driving for a long time can cause several problems: Stalling or failure for your car to start. Flooding of your engine. Pre-ignition of your fuel.
How do I know if my fuel injectors are stuck open?
Signs of a Dead Fuel Injector
- Starting Problems. If a fuel injector is truly “dead,” it is either no longer opening or is clogged in such a way that no gasoline is able to get from the pressurized fuel line to the intake port.
- Rough Running and Vibration.
- Other Symptoms.
- Trust the Dash Warning Lights.
What’s the life of a Prado diesel injector?
Injectors are now classed as a consumable and have a limited life span. They have to do a lot of hard work with very high fuel rail pressures as opposed to the old mechanical ones. You must keep an eye on your injector feedback values, especially as they get older.
What causes the injector seat on a Prado to fail?
This is caused by the copper injector seat/washers failing letting oil to pass when turned off and leak into the piston chamber. The following damage occurs as the exhaust gasses pass the injector seat it burns oil causing carbonisation. These little particles make there way back into the sump where they slowly block the pick up mesh.
How are Denso common rail injectors are sold?
Denso Common Rail Injectors are sold on an exchange basis. If your old injector (s) is not received within 30 days a core charge of 50 per injector will be applied. Diesel Care will supply a pre-paid, pre-addressed return shipping label for your exchange injector (s).
Why are my diesel injectors not working properly?
As a result they corroded and thus let gases and oil in both directions. Resulted in a clogged oil pickup screen which eventually staved the engine of oil and seized. Other issue is with the injectors, NOT just prado but ALL common rail modern diesels. Injectors are now classed as a consumable and have a limited life span.