I've got my truck in the shop undergoing an engine rebuild and am wondering about fuel injector service. The guy at the shop wants $150 to do it. However, I used a bottle of BG44K in it a couple of weeks ago before the engine blew up. Would it benefit me to have the injector service done since the engine is already torn down? Or should I just run another bottle of BG44K through it when I get the truck back?

Thoughts?

 

Do the injector service and then maintain them with a bottle of the BG's once a year.

 

hmmmm.... I always been suspicious of "miracle in a bottle" type stuff (remember slick50?)...although I've heard good words on BG, this isn't the first time I've heard of this happening as well....

damned if you do, damned if you don't... i guess

 

stump,

i hardly thing your engine blew up b/c of the BG44. probably a prior, existing condition, right? Were there other problems?

i'd be more concerned about the rebuild than the injectors. but since its all pulled, couldnt you or the shop determine whether or not the injectors are fouled beyond cleaning? if so, you could by new injectors if you really want to have new injectors, find some used (clean) injectors at a salvage yard, or wait until everything is rebuilt and then do the injector service.

ya got options

bob

 

Sorry, my OP was a little unclear.

The engine blew up from a can of engine cleaner I used in it. See my thread on that in the 4Runner Forum. The BG44K was not a problem when I used it. I was just wondering if it would benefit me to clean the injectors now (if necessary), or pull them myself later and ship them off for cleaning, or if the BG44K was just as good since I ran a bottle through the injectors roughly 3 weeks ago and will start using it regularly after the engine is rebuilt.

 

I used 44k in my Eclipse once a year over 8 years of racing and never had a fuel system related problem and I even had my stock injectors cleaned and balanced and the tech that was cleaning them said they still had a good spray pattern for injectors that had 90k on 'em.