Fuel injection

[nikos]

Question: I removed my cracked banks eng. header from my 99 TJ once again, (for the third time)! I am replacing the injectors as well and upon removing the last connector off the fuel rail, the connector broke and now it wont snap back into place. What do I do?

I've been to three junk yards and no jeeps they carry has that specific connector. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

[BrockGrimes]

If you know anyone in San Diego. There's a junk yard there that has about 4 - 5 TJ's that have been wrecked or rolled.
It's in the yards out by Brown field airport off the 905.
There are several yards so you'll have to look.

Other than that check with the stealership or ebay maybe craigslist.

[TDS SD]

Parts

Hardrock 4x4. Here is the link.
http://www.jeep911.com/shop/

[BrockGrimes]

Hardrock 4x4. Here is the link.
http://www.jeep911.com/shop/

That's the place.

[nikos]

Thanks I'll definately check that place out! I heard that if I cut that connector and attach another, it would change the conductivity and the precision needed to fire the injector. Is this true? Should I just seat the connector and mickey mouse its attachment with some bailing wire?

[aw12345]

You can splice a new or used connector on it, without any problems also the connector is not necesarily jeep specific. Try looking at some ford cars and match the connector. On the 2.5l engines they stick a lot of ford injectors in them so a good change the connectors of a ford will work lot more of those on Junkyards

[fun4wheelerguy]

To reduce the chance of voltage drop and or corrosion when you splice the injector wire back together. You should solder and heatshrink the wires.

Brett

[aw12345]

You can use the heatshrinkable butt connectors also, soldering works well but makes the wires hard when the solder wicks in. Could cause the wires to break because of the engine vibrations the best solution is to find what oem delaers recommend cold solder butt connectors. The kinda solder themselves when you crimp them is the best of both worlds

[nikos]

You can splice a new or used connector on it, without any problems also the connector is not necesarily jeep specific. Try looking at some ford cars and match the connector. On the 2.5l engines they stick a lot of ford injectors in them so a good change the connectors of a ford will work lot more of those on Junkyards

Ya, when I visited the junk yards, I also looked in the
Fords, but found nothing. I'll visit again and search through a few more!

[nikos]

To reduce the chance of voltage drop and or corrosion when you splice the injector wire back together. You should solder and heatshrink the wires.

Brett

Thanks, for sure!!

[Jerry Bransford]

It's in the yards out by Brown field airport off the 905.
There are several yards so you'll have to look.

Saying there are several in that area is kind of like saying there are several grains of salt in a salt shaker. Every time I go down to that area to look for parts, I'm amazed how many junkyards there are in a maze of streets and side streets. I wouldn't be surprised if the total number of junkyards wasn't over fifty in that small area.

It's good that TDS SD came up with the actual website for them, which I bookmarked. Thank you!

[BrockGrimes]

Hey I said several........lol

[TDS SD]

Jeep junk yard

I've used them a couple of times.

[nikos]

Thanks to everyone for the info!