Thread: Cleaning around the fuel injector area

Thanks for elaborating James, I was running when I posted that.

I'm a bit concerned you've eaten and drank too many engine parts/fluids. Although..it hasn't seemed to affect ya at all

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I pulled one of the fuel injector plugs and look inside the male part of the plug. From what I can see, it looked like oil. What can that be? I'm real busy today, but tomorrow I will post pics of the fuel injector area of my ride.

Originally Posted by Flip97GTP

Well, now that I look at it a little closer it does look like this. I have those crappy plastic LIM gasket on there right now. I'm going to do a LIM gasket replacement and I'm going to use the aluminum one.

This is what it looks like around my fuel injectors.

Where you see the reddish color there in the LIM duck area is where I get a little liquid.





It gets kind of moist by where the elbow is too.

Yeah I would do lim gaskets and elbows for sure

Yeah, that's what I was thinking because it doesn't look that good in that area.....lol

I would start by cleaning down the motor while it's together. Then after it's dry. Do the gasket.s

dont forget the thread sealant for the lim bolts. my lim valleys were full of coolant, the one on the outside near the egr would cry when the car was all warmed up. just a tear trail from it full time.

being your a 97 you can just snap that upper elbow off and leave the alt bracket in place, then install the new one with the lim.

and de grease the engine before the lim job. who wants to work on a dirty ass engine.

Lol...you all are funny! Yes, it is a real dirty ass engine. I'm going to give her a real good engine bath this weekend.

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

dont forget the thread sealant for the lim bolts. my lim valleys were full of coolant, the one on the outside near the egr would cry when the car was all warmed up. just a tear trail from it full time.

Here is what I used on a head gasket job I did. I assume this would work!

I would use aircraft thread sealant. IDK about that stuff. Might work.

Originally Posted by SnowTh1ef

I would use aircraft thread sealant. IDK about that stuff. Might work.

Well, I used it on the head bolts and it worked fine. I would think it would work on the LIM bolts as well.

Skip that.. just get yourself a teflon based sealant. Done.

this is what most of use use, its for the threads, not the gaskets.



and watch this vid. they change lifters too, you just stop at the lim job.

Yup thats the exact stuff I always use scotty.

OK I will use that sealant and thanks for yalls help......

i have permatex thread sealer (let it airdry for a few minutes before installing) as well as the aviation sealer (non hardening for dynamic sealing gaskets) in 16fl oz jugs with the brush lol

i kept having a hard time finding all my little bottles strewn about the garage/lent out
big juggs are easier to find and grab onto, plus who doesnt like big juggs?

Originally Posted by Turbocharged400sbc

i have permatex thread sealer (let it airdry for a few minutes before installing) as well as the aviation sealer (non hardening for dynamic sealing gaskets) in 16fl oz jugs with the brush lol

i kept having a hard time finding all my little bottles strewn about the garage/lent out
big juggs are easier to find and grab onto, plus who doesnt like big juggs?

Same stuff I have. I love me some big juggs.

Big Jugg it is!

big juggs aint cheap lol the small jugs are like 6 to 8 bucks lol and way more then you ever need to do like 50 lim jobs.