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Special tools, testers and auxiliary items

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NOTE: Faulty fuel injectors can cause the following malfunctions:
  • Misfiring
  • Knocking in one or more cylinders
  • Engine over-heating
  • Loss of power
  • Excessive black exhaust smoke
  • Higher fuel consumption
  • Excessive blue smoke when starting from cold

Faulty injectors can be isolated by loosening the high pressure union for each injector in sequence, with the engine running at high idle. If engine speed remains constant after loosening a particular fuel line union, then that fuel injector is faulty.