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Old Dec 24, 2012 | 12:57 PM
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Fuel injector question

About 5 months ago i replaced my fuel injectors with remanufactured injectors from rc engineering. Starting last month the car has been having some trouble start on a warm engine but starts fine on a cold one. Its been also running rough when idling. at stop lights i occasionally watch the RPM needle jumping up and down. The check engine light finally came, i got the code for leaking injector. I also pulled the injector wire from each injector while the car was running to see the change in idle however when i pulled the #3 injector there was no change in idle. So initially i thought i might have pinched the oring on the injector, but now im wondering if i may need a new injector. If i needed to replace the injector would i have gotten a bad injector code instead? With a pinched oring would it cause no change in idle when i pulled the wire?

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Old Dec 24, 2012 | 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by fduffy25
About 5 months ago i replaced my fuel injectors with remanufactured injectors from rc engineering. Starting last month the car has been having some trouble start on a warm engine but starts fine on a cold one. Its been also running rough when idling. at stop lights i occasionally watch the RPM needle jumping up and down. The check engine light finally came, i got the code for leaking injector. I also pulled the injector wire from each injector while the car was running to see the change in idle however when i pulled the #3 injector there was no change in idle. So initially i thought i might have pinched the oring on the injector, but now im wondering if i may need a new injector. If i needed to replace the injector would i have gotten a bad injector code instead? With a pinched oring would it cause no change in idle when i pulled the wire?

Thanks for your help
It seems the re-manufactured injectors are all garbage. Here is a link to a thread with info on brand new ones as cheap as I have found them:

http://forums.maxima.org/3rd-generat...nt-thread.html
Old Dec 24, 2012 | 02:39 PM
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I have a 1994 maxima, went to amazon and bought the Beck Arnley 158-0862 Fuel Injector.

Put them in 3 months ago and they work like a charm. Brand new and at $73 as cheap as refurbished garbage.
Old Dec 26, 2012 | 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by khakuda
I have a 1994 maxima, went to amazon and bought the Beck Arnley 158-0862 Fuel Injector.

Put them in 3 months ago and they work like a charm. Brand new and at $73 as cheap as refurbished garbage.
Yeah, but the link I gave above has brand new OEM for under $60.00 each - delivered!
Old Dec 26, 2012 | 08:34 PM
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Yeah, but the link I gave above has brand new OEM for under $60.00 each - delivered!
that sounds good to me. ill give them a call and get that ordered. thanks
Old Dec 29, 2012 | 08:40 AM
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I had an entire set of injectors rebuilt, cleaned and spec'd by RC engineering and 2 failed with open solenoids.....Matt Blehm said I was wasting my time aand it all came true eventually.....I'm not gonna say all remans are crap but geekparts.com has some available for $26 and I bought them for my neice's Pathfinder cause she broke and I wasn't gonna spent an arm and leg fixing her vehicle and she wasn't gonna pay me back anyway.....so I went the El Cheapo route!!!!
Old Dec 20, 2013 | 05:29 PM
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See Post 14 - It was $360.00 for a set of 6 in 10/29/2012

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