Does anyone have any positive experience to share please regarding testing / servicing of petrol injectors, type IWC 162, bloody monster has thrown it's hand in again! struggling to find anything local that's not diesel, (Essex) Ducati want almost £600 each!! Have seen the cheapo Chinese copies but can't take them seriously @£20 for the pair! TIA.
It is possible to clean them with brake cleaner...connect to a square 9V battery to open the injector..then spray in reverse.
how many miles have your injectors done? If you haven't used/started the engine for some time then they might just be fully gummed. You often don't need to go the full 9 yards when it comes to freeing them off, a 24 hour dunk in carb cleaner/easy start et cetera works nearly every time. You only need to dunk the nose of the injector obviously.
Several weeks ago my 848 started running very bad, at first it sounded electrical so I replaced plugs and coils and reset TPS. It started running marginally better. Then it would start to bog down. I pulled the tank and it was disgusting along with the fuel filter that was growing a farm of algae. I purchased an injector tester/cleaner from Amazon and while I was patiently or maybe impatiently waiting I purchased two new injectors from Bike Sport Development here in the UK. They are matching Marelli injectors to the ones Ducati sells. They were about £160 each. I swapped them out and did another TPS reset. Bike is smooth again. I will at one point clean up the original injectors and keep those as spares. I might even send them out to be cleaned on a professional bench, there are several top end places around for about £20 each I think. When I purchased my bike a year ago, It was supposed to have the fuel filter changed...I guess the dealership was busy... I guess I will do the belts in a few weeks as even though I have a sign off for all that work something tells me differently. My bike is a 2012 and had 1,100 miles on it so I am catching up with all the crap from leaving a bike for a decade un touched.
^thanks, have spoken with a handful and they're just not interested. @Chris : also thanks, it's a dead injector, no fuel flow, tis a busy weekend but I'll get back to it Monday, grateful for all the suggestions, thanks chaps.
put a multimeter across it. it should almost deffo give you a reading of around 14-16ohms. if not. bin it.
I used injectortune.co.uk 5 years ago, and I think it took about a week turnaround for four. They tested before and after cleaning (leak, static flow rate, and spray pattern) and returned them with a test report. Two of mine were absolutely fine. The other two had improved flow rate and spray pattern after cleaning, matching the others. I don't think they had been bad enough to cause issues but I was glad that I'd had them all tested and cleaned for peace of mind. I would use injectortune again, if they are still going.
