I just did this last week using a carpenters retractable blade. Nothing
fancy, just requires lots of diagonal cuts starting at the base of fuel
hose, injector side. Get the tip of the blade in that collar, and dig away.
Use a set of pliers to pull the hose off, it takes a few minutes of cutting
and tugging per injector. After doing it a couple times, you'll figure out
that there is really nothing to mess up except your fingers if you're not
careful!

Then, I took them to witchhunter for the complete cleaning and flow testing.
That guy knows what he is doing and has a nice setup. I would take injectors
to him again. The injectors come back looking like new, and the flow numbers
are very consistent. FWIW.

Chris

On Dec 8, 2007 8:08 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> When I did the job, I did exactly this. Do it outside, cutting the clamps
> with a dremel cutoff wheel produces a spray of sparks, and the opportunity
> to ignite both rubber and gasoline remnant is there.
> The hose pieces are on the barbs so tight that freeing them from the steel
> clamps doesn't get it. They have to be cut off with a blade fine enough to
> follow the contours of the barbed plastic without harming it. An exacto #
> 11
> blade works well.
>
> Jim
>
> On Dec 7, 2007 8:35 PM, azsun99 <azsun99@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > I know at least one other person on the list is doing or getting ready
> to
> > do this job.
> > On Ben's site he shows the short hose cut off flush with the end of the
> > nipple and
> > then using an Exacto knife to cut the hose from the inside. Another
> person
> > suggested
> > using side cutters to cut down through the ring clamp holding the hose
> to
> > the
> > injector. I don't have an Exacto knife and a utility knife just wasn't
> > doing the job.
> > Trying to cut that ring with side cutters wasn't working very well
> either.
> > My solution
> > was use of a Dremel tool with the thin cut-off blade. I VERY CAREFULLY
> cut
> > diagonally
> > down through the ring as far as I could. Then I could pry it up out of
> the
> > way. Then
> > used a new single-edge razor blade to cut down from the top, also
> > diagonally and
> > carefully, so as not to nick the nipple where the hose attaches. I also
> > did not cut
> > off the end of the hose. This gave me something to grab with pliers and
> > twist and pull
> > the hose off.
> > I didn't cut into anything vital except the top of my thumb.
> > Jerry
> >
>

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