Leaky injector

[gumby6371]

Having a poke around the engine bay at the weekend and noticed a puddle of fuel around one of the diesel injectors on my D8 1.9, spoke to a mechanic friend of mine and he said it would be more hastle than it's worth to fix and apart from wasting a bit of fuel shouldn't hurt anything, anyone got any thoughts on this ?

Planning on giving it all a good jet wash in preperation for fitting new tensioners so if anyones got an 'easy' fix i might give it a go when it's all de-gunked.

[StevieboyTD]

Odds are it's the thin leak off pipes that are dropping fuel onto the injector, dirt cheap from the motor factors and only take 10 minutes to change the lot.

[mjb]

Having a poke around the engine bay
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Planning on giving it all a good jet wash

Very bad idea!

[swiss]

Indeed, I was wondering how the wise man would actually clean an engine bay, considering all the electrickery under there.

[gumby6371]

I take it you don't recommend jet washing then.

Have been told it would be ok if I left the engine running and being a non HDI there isn't a huge amount of electrics to worry about.

My brother in law is a mechanic at a hauliers yard and he did say I could use the steam cleaner if I can get it there when the boss isn't around