Hi all

I have a Felicia a pickup with the 1.9d engine, recentley got it back on the road after sitting for over a year. Runs fine but one of the injectors appears to leaking from the body, either where it's screwed together or where it screws into the head.

My questions are can it be removed, stripped down and seals replaced or is it time for a whole new injector? If it can be repaired is it a diy job or do I need a professional to sort it? Is there a seal kit available?

Many thanks

Grayham

Better buy a new injector or buy one from a scrapyard if you can't afford a new one. I think they are available from other VAG cars too.

If it wasn't leaking before the lay-up check the braided rubber return hoses. I know it's a bit further up the injector but it may be leaking and dribbling down the injector to make it look like it's leaking at the head. They're cheap to buy and a simple job to replace. They perish and split - I've had one go. You can buy the hose as one length and cut it yourself or you can get kits with 4 short lengths and the blanking plug for the last in the line.

 

(Make sure you get proper diesel hose though, ordinary fuel lines are destroyed by the diesel pretty quickly. I had a garage replace my glow plugs a few years ago and they removed a return hose to get access. They then replaced it with petrol hose and I had diesel flowing down the front of the engine within days.)

Hi thanks for the replies I had a closer look today and it does seem to be the little pipes at the top that are leaking, they look like braided cloth ones?

Any idea what size inner outer diameter these will be?

Many thanks

Gray

Sorry not been on here a few days.

 

Mine are marked DIN 73379  Type B  3.5 x 2.5mm. (I imagine that's the inner and outer diameter.) They're a cloth outer around a rubber inner. I think you can buy them as "spill-off hose". They're easy to replace - pull off the old and push on the new. The set I bought were pre-cut but you can buy it by the metre and cut it yourself. The pre-cut set included the rubber cap that you see on the last injector so worth having and I think they were under  a tenner.

 

Make sure whatever you buy is rated for diesel as when a garage fitted another type of fuel line to mine it started leaking within a couple of days.