open fuel injector

1999 FORD EXPLORER
100,000 MILES • 4.0L • V6 • RWD • AUTOMATIC
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TOWMAN99
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last cylinder flooded with gas on rear drivers side ,compression good ,new cylinder heads installed,plugs,wires , while running strong smell of gas from exhaust pipe i tested with anold light on injector wire flashes. so listen for ticking while running no ticking all other injectors working fine just the one . i hooked up a outside injecter started engine seems like injector is sticking open and gets hot fast . no ticking sound ececpt when first turn on engine just one click and then gets hot like full power to injector
Mar 24, 2016 at 6:08 PM
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CAR-MAN145
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Sounds like the injector is stuck open.
Mar 25, 2016 at 12:42 AM
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TOWMAN99
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no not stuck open i have several loose injectors i put in to wire harness same problem.i took the same injector pluged it in another injector wire(plug) works fine .all this is with not removing injectors from engine .
Mar 25, 2016 at 7:27 AM
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STRAILER
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You have an injector driver inside the computer that is stuck, you need to replace the ECM
Mar 25, 2016 at 11:34 PM