[SEL] Calibrating the Lister Injector.

[Tony & Jackie]

C'mon Elden, it was a 5.7L and once 1982 rolled around, they were 
damn reliable engines!  I've owned two of them that went past 200,000 miles!!

You should be revoked of your "diesel-nut" card for that!  ;-)

-Tony



At 10:09 AM 9/27/2009, you wrote:
>Jerry:
>
>VERY interesting!  As a side note, I have a friend up North who 
>once, in a fit of foolishness, decided to work on a General Motors 
>5.9 liter Diesel.  This was the engine that was notorious for 
>breaking internal parts.
>
>One of the things he did was to collect a lot of the non-adjustable 
>injectors and sort them according to cracking pressure.  He didn't 
>have one of those fancy rigs so he just used a pump grease gun 
>filled with Diesel fuel and a hydraulic pressure gauge.  He said it 
>worked fine!
>
>It wasn't much later that he abandoned the idea that the GM 5.9 was 
>a good engine.