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Old 04-14-2010, 10:10 AM
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I've been struggling with a 95 S10 CEL light flashing, it would go off and on, by itself. You could also smell it running rich also, code was for the O2 sensor. Having another S10, wifes truck and running into the same problem and expense, it was the spider injecter on hers. Anyways so I replace the spider injecter on mine, at the same time I replace the O2's which had lots of carbon on it, and plugs. After that the truck actually got worse, especially at idle, but if I floored it, it seemed to have the power, but at idle it was bad. So I replace the cap and rotor, its been awhile, and pull the plugs and the plugs on the driver side were carboned up, while the passenger side was clean. After reading a few other related threads on here, I removed the top of the plenum and saw a clean area on the driver side, and keyed the ignition on to pressurize the system, and saw that the fuel line feeding the spider injecter had a crack in it. It wasn't like this when I replaced the injecter, my guess is I cracked it while installing the injecter, and thats why it seemed to get worse with the new injecter. Now I know what the problem is but my question is, instead of using that nylon replacement line, can I use some high pressure fuel line instead? it would be alot cheaper any suggestions would be appreciated
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I suppose you could make anything work, however, fuel line probably won't like the environment inside the engine... Best to just replace it with the proper parts and be done with it.
 
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