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Last Friday my son (on hol from Worthing, Sussex) has had to leave his 12,000 mile Chausson in Bodmin, Devon. The garage diagnosed a failed no. 1 injector which they replaced but on road test they then had a code that no. 2 injector was faulty. They sheared it off when trying to extract it.
The garage couldn't remove it and after a lot of huffing and puffing have arranged for a 'Sheared Injector Specialist'
to call on Monday in the expectation that he can get it out. It's a Ford diesel (my son thinks it's a 2.1L or 2.2L engine) and the garage said it's a common fault due to water ingress collecting in the injector well causing rusting.
My (handy) son has a plan to make a better arrangement for directing the rainwater harmlessly away from the injectors but it rang a bell in that doesn't someone on here produce a shield on a 3D printer - or was that just for the Ducato?
They are home now after staying in a hotel for 3 nights but had to come home for his wife's hosp app't as it was/is unknown whether the Sheared Injector Specialist would be able to remove the injector stump. Fortunately they had their Smart toad with them. The garage said if not successful they'd have to replace the cylinder head which seems a bit extreme as I've removed all sorts of sheared steel stumps by spark erosion although it'll still be necessary to remove the cyl head to do it.
The garage couldn't remove it and after a lot of huffing and puffing have arranged for a 'Sheared Injector Specialist'

My (handy) son has a plan to make a better arrangement for directing the rainwater harmlessly away from the injectors but it rang a bell in that doesn't someone on here produce a shield on a 3D printer - or was that just for the Ducato?
They are home now after staying in a hotel for 3 nights but had to come home for his wife's hosp app't as it was/is unknown whether the Sheared Injector Specialist would be able to remove the injector stump. Fortunately they had their Smart toad with them. The garage said if not successful they'd have to replace the cylinder head which seems a bit extreme as I've removed all sorts of sheared steel stumps by spark erosion although it'll still be necessary to remove the cyl head to do it.