Factory reman injectors vs. fresh from a known builder in Austin is a night and day difference after even just six months.

I swapped a set of remans that were causing a rough idle and low power at 40k miles for a set from a local diesel shop and the truck runs smoother and pulls harder now than it did the day I bought it; has anyone else had better luck with local builders over the big box reman stuff?

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nancygrant20d ago

Exactly. The reman factories are just cranking them out on a line, no one gives a damn about matching flow rates or pop pressure. My buddy's 6.0 was a perfect example - swapped in a set of reman Bosch units from one of the big online places and it started missing under load around 10k miles. We sent them back twice and they were still junk on the third try. Finally took them to a shop in San Antonio that builds them by hand and it's been night and day for three years now. The difference is they actually bench test each one and shim them to match your truck, versus just slapping new seals on old cores and calling it good.

anderson.david20d ago

Man, I felt that in my wallet. I once tried to save a few hundred bucks on injectors for my old 7.3 and learned the hard way that "reman" sometimes stands for "remotely might work." My truck started sounding like a popcorn machine at a stoplight after about 8k miles. Ended up taking them to a little shop up in Oklahoma that tests each one on a bench with a stethoscope, I swear. Cost me a pretty penny but it's been smooth sailing for five years now. You ever run into a shop that actually does the shim work by hand or just the big box stores?

kimr1020d ago

Oh I totally agree. I read a piece in a diesel magazine a while back about how the reman factories just don't take the time to match parts properly like a good local shop does. It makes all the difference in the world.