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Went to a shop in Knoxville and their injector pull game was sad
Stopped by a place called Johnson's Truck Repair last week to grab some parts and saw a guy fighting a 6.7 Powerstroke injector with a slide hammer for 20 minutes. No one had a proper puller set on the truck, just wrenches and heat. How do you run a diesel shop without a dedicated injector puller kit for common rails?
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james99513d ago
Man, that's such a classic example of shops skipping the basics to save a few bucks (and then wasting way more time because of it). It reminds me of how people everywhere try to fix things with the wrong tools instead of just stopping and getting the right one. That same lazy shortcut thinking shows up in all kinds of work, not just diesel stuff, and it always ends up making the job harder than it had to be.
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roses6913d ago
Yeah but honestly @james995 I used to think you could get by without the fancy puller sets if you had enough heat and patience. Watched a buddy pop a 6.7 injector with a torch and a long pry bar once and it worked so I figured that was good enough. Then I tried that on a 2015 F350 and ended up snapping the hold down bracket, huge mess. Now I keep a proper OTC puller kit in the truck, it's just not worth fighting something for twenty minutes when a sixty dollar tool saves you an hour.
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