Hey all,
Well, now that I'm no longer in the oil fields on the road, I'm back home and taking care of my chores list that was put on pause indefinitely.
While I was out on the road, my buddy borrowed the Benz to drive as his wife commandeered his truck while he worked on her Pontiac Azturd (it can be a real b!tch getting older '96+ vehicles through NYS emissions inspection). Anywho, the Benz was still leaking at the #5 injector, and since I was on the road making slamming money, I went ahead and ordered up new Bosch injectors (not reman), heat shields, and cigar tubes and told him "yeah, just go ahead and change them all out." My plan really was to find a set of used injectors, and reman them with bosio/monark nozzles and install those instead, but at the time money was no object, and I figured the Bosch units would be great. The guy at peachparts was great, very nice, gave me a slammin' deal on the injectors as I was buying the whole set, new, with shields and cigar tubes. Package shows up back home, I never see it until I come home a few weeks later. As per usual with this friend, he never got around to fixing his wife's car or the benz and has just decided to live with the wreaking stench of diesel in the cabin. I take a look at the injectors... made in India.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm sure that Bosch has one HELL of a factory and workforce over there, doing one HELLUVA job. But let's face it... ze Germans didn't lose the war because of inferior gear, and they weren't making it in India at the time.
I'm getting the vehicle back tomorrow, and i'm torn between just jamming a junkyard injector (in very good shape) into it to stop the leak, yanking out all the injectors and rebuilding all of them (vehicle will be down for a few days in the cold as I wait for shims to adjust pop pressures to +/- 3 bar), or just going ahead and using these new Indian made units from Bosch.
I know some of you aren't terribly keen on the Indian NOZZLES due to longevity issues. These are new manufacture Bosch injectors, pop tested and sealed in neat packaging.
Whuddya think?
Well, now that I'm no longer in the oil fields on the road, I'm back home and taking care of my chores list that was put on pause indefinitely.
While I was out on the road, my buddy borrowed the Benz to drive as his wife commandeered his truck while he worked on her Pontiac Azturd (it can be a real b!tch getting older '96+ vehicles through NYS emissions inspection). Anywho, the Benz was still leaking at the #5 injector, and since I was on the road making slamming money, I went ahead and ordered up new Bosch injectors (not reman), heat shields, and cigar tubes and told him "yeah, just go ahead and change them all out." My plan really was to find a set of used injectors, and reman them with bosio/monark nozzles and install those instead, but at the time money was no object, and I figured the Bosch units would be great. The guy at peachparts was great, very nice, gave me a slammin' deal on the injectors as I was buying the whole set, new, with shields and cigar tubes. Package shows up back home, I never see it until I come home a few weeks later. As per usual with this friend, he never got around to fixing his wife's car or the benz and has just decided to live with the wreaking stench of diesel in the cabin. I take a look at the injectors... made in India.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm sure that Bosch has one HELL of a factory and workforce over there, doing one HELLUVA job. But let's face it... ze Germans didn't lose the war because of inferior gear, and they weren't making it in India at the time.
I'm getting the vehicle back tomorrow, and i'm torn between just jamming a junkyard injector (in very good shape) into it to stop the leak, yanking out all the injectors and rebuilding all of them (vehicle will be down for a few days in the cold as I wait for shims to adjust pop pressures to +/- 3 bar), or just going ahead and using these new Indian made units from Bosch.
I know some of you aren't terribly keen on the Indian NOZZLES due to longevity issues. These are new manufacture Bosch injectors, pop tested and sealed in neat packaging.
Whuddya think?