leo_lopez•20d agoMost Upvoted

Old timer at a shop in Nashville showed me how to bleed injectors using a pickle jar and a piece of hose

He said "stop wasting money on fancy kits" and that $2 setup has saved me at least ten hours of headache on 7.3 Powerstrokes alone, has anyone else got a hack like that for a Diesel engine?

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the_vera20d ago

Broke down in a field in BFE once with a bad lift pump on my old 12-valve. Used a Gatorade bottle and a piece of rubber fuel line to gravity-feed from a five-gallon can I had in the bed. Ran the whole way home like that, about forty miles. It's not fancy, but it's still in my toolbox somewhere.

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angela_kelly19d ago

Honestly, does that bottle still hold diesel smell or did you ever get it out? Tbh I've done the same trick with a 2-liter soda bottle and a zip tie to hold the line in place, and it worked fine for about 30 miles on a back road. Ngl, those redneck fixes always seem to outlast the actual parts you replace them with.