So my car sat for about 3 months when I went back East to see my family and lend a hand to my Dad's construction company. GF was supposed to start my car and drive it around the parking lot once every week or so but that did not happen. When I returned the battery was flat dead as can be. Unhooked it, brought it to Autozone, picked it up 4 hours later, great time to fire up the ZHP.
Cranked her over and the entire car started shaking and shimmying and it took no time for the rough running engine to throw the SES light. Turned the car off, plugged in the codes scanner, and sure enough misfires everywhere! Cylinder 2, 4 and 5 were throwing codes, plus the generic multiple misfire codes. Despite using Sta-Bil while gone, my injectors gunked up pretty bad it seemed. Took them out for cleaning and this was my setup.
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Used an old to go container as the base and collection area with a hanger from tool peg board as the support. Worked perfectly as there just enough room for 6 injectors, and it kept them positioned just right in the tray. Next I followed a tip from Ratchets and Wrenches and put together a cleaning assembly using some spare vacuum lines and some shrink wrap for wiring. Used some electrical tape for good measure after. I used the canned version of SeaFoam, but many products could work here. It was on sale and I plan to use the rest in the engine through the intake manifold as a cleaner.
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I don't have a spare car battery around and did not want to lug mine from the car to the house so I connected the leads to a 9V battery and that was enough to actuate the injectors. Hold the spray can button down for several seconds each as they took turns being connected to the battery and boom, cleaning done in no time!
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I let the injectors soak over night in the tray and the next morning when I returned, there was a small glob of congealed gas / ethanol that was at the bottom of the tray. I tried to take some pictures of this but don't know if they came out well and I've yet to offload them from my phone. If they came out ill post them, but it was clear that the cleaning had actually cleaned!
Put them back into the car and it ran substantially better! Codes cleared and was back to just the pesky lean codes :/
I have since solved those codes and that will be my next update post!