Injector Clip Vfaq, installing injector clip 'staples' easy Options

[xian 1g]

Tonight I was working on a car, and came to the point where it was time to put the injector clips back on. Well, tonight I found a simple six second installation method that will leave the hair on your head, the beer in the fridge, and the screw driver out of the wall.

Now, we all no what a piss poor job the mitsu God's did designing the little injector clip 'staples' that hold the injector clips onto the injectors.

These little f.u.c.k.e.r.s sometimes go in easily (well, never for me, but i've heard others say that sometimes they do), or they can be as painfull as a night with the bloomington IDB initiation club.

Untill tonight my solution was broken clips or just asking people to kindly not smoke next to my car when it was idling due to the massive amounts of fuel being sprayed out.

You will need:
2 needle nose pliers
one hand
and 2 minutes for all 4

Allright, this is your starting point:




Begin by inserting one of the needle nose pliers into the inside of the clip, with the pliers opening width wise of the clip. Fit the tips of the pliers in between the center console and the plastic outer edge.

Here is a pic that does better than my description:




T.B.A. - do to scripts and functions of this board I can only post so many pics per reply...

[KOU In3]

As far as replacement clips, interestingly enough, some of the 2G clips have a simple push-lock system (squeeze the buttons on the sides for release). Seems to be a little hit or miss though as my '95 Talon has the 'better' injector clips but a another '95 Talon we have in the shop is stuck with the old style ones. (the one in Xian's pics is actually a 2G that we surmise has some leftover '94 harness pieces used from the factory).

I'm always a little iffy on unneccessary harness hacking though to swap the actual clips. Not that the install and function isn't good, just that I've had a few bad experiences with wiring harnesses that have been hacked on by a succession of owners (downside of 15 year old modified cars I guess. )

As far as removing the little 'staples' I've had good luck with using a pocket knife to gently seperate the staples from the injector clip.