Lost $200 on a reman injector that was crap from the box

I picked up a reman injector from a discount parts place in Nashville last month to save some cash. Installed it in a 2012 Cummins, took me about 3 hours with all the bleeding and test drives. Truck ran rough still, so I pulled it and sent it back. Shop refunded me but I lost the $200 in labor and downtime. Has anyone else had bad luck with these reman parts from the smaller suppliers?

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jason11216d ago

Took me about 3 hours with all the bleeding and test drives" - that's rough, but I gotta push back a little. I've run reman injectors from a couple of the smaller discount shops on my old 7.3 and my buddy's 6.0, and both times they ran fine for about 6 months before one started leaking. You might have just hit a bad batch, but I figure you're rolling the dice on injectors from any place that isn't a name brand supplier. Three hours of labor stings, but try Bosch or Alliant next time and skip the gamble.

patriciamoore16d ago

Discount injectors get a bad rap but people forget the price difference is massive. You can buy three sets of those for what one set of Bosch costs. Not everyone has $2,000 to drop on injectors for a truck that's probably got 250k miles on it already. If a guy is just trying to keep his beater running another year or two, the math works out fine even if you replace one or two down the road. Name brand stuff is great if you're building a show truck or keeping something forever. For daily drivers that see mud and salt, the cheaper option makes sense more often than people admit.