Hi,
Just looking for some advice please.
Recently changed an injector due to getting a misfire on cylinder 4. Everything went smooth, then drove the car after and no more misfire code. Also noticed somehwat that the rail wasn't fully secured in place. So I made sure to tighten everything up properly, so that the rail couldn't be moved by a little bit of hand force!
However, today, while driving, lost all power and ground to a halt. It turns out one of the fuel rail retaining nuts has been ripped off the thread and so the fuel rail popped off on one side.
The threads on the nut is fine, but the thread of the hole in the inlet manifold where the nut goes into, is damaged. So I need to retap it.
2 questions:
1. is the inlet mani made of aluminium, hence the steel nut threads didnt get damaged but the inlet mani threads did?
2. i installed a 4 bar in rail fpr (looks like for like to original but 1 bar higher), could this higher pressure have caused the rail to pop off?
I'd imagine a lot of force was required to rip the threads and pop the rail off
Just looking for some advice please.
Recently changed an injector due to getting a misfire on cylinder 4. Everything went smooth, then drove the car after and no more misfire code. Also noticed somehwat that the rail wasn't fully secured in place. So I made sure to tighten everything up properly, so that the rail couldn't be moved by a little bit of hand force!
However, today, while driving, lost all power and ground to a halt. It turns out one of the fuel rail retaining nuts has been ripped off the thread and so the fuel rail popped off on one side.
The threads on the nut is fine, but the thread of the hole in the inlet manifold where the nut goes into, is damaged. So I need to retap it.
2 questions:
1. is the inlet mani made of aluminium, hence the steel nut threads didnt get damaged but the inlet mani threads did?
2. i installed a 4 bar in rail fpr (looks like for like to original but 1 bar higher), could this higher pressure have caused the rail to pop off?
I'd imagine a lot of force was required to rip the threads and pop the rail off