2005 Ram 2500

Begining to hard start. Overnight seems to be the worst. Died once. No codes. Fuel filter recently changed.

Boss thinks its the injectors because the same thing happened to a friend of his. Wants me to change them.

Never done it before. [He thinks it should be like changing sparkplugs]

How big a job is it? Do you need special tools?

Looking for a manual. Is the "2005-DodgeFSM.Zip " a service manual? Not sure if I can open the file, haven't tried yet.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Rob

Boss wanted me to quit screwing around and change the injectors. I've got just about everything removed except the injectors and tubes.The instructions I found say you have to loosen the two bolts holding a bracket to the back of the head. Looks like a pain in the butt- I haven't tried getting back there yet. Is there just not enough room to pull the tube out without doing this?

I believe your talking about the bracket to hook a cherry-picker to. It's two easily accessed bolts that provide the room required to get to the rear injector.

Nope, that one's not a problem. There's one bolted flush to the back of the head- just behind the rear injector.

--- Update to the previous post...

Well, I was able to crawl back there and loosen the bolts on that bracket. It looks like there might not have been much room to pull the tube out and probably not enough to get a torque wrench in there.

Injectors are out and sent to be tested.

Injectors were all bad with one worse than the others. Having them rebuilt because no one but the dealer has any in stock. Shops have been waiting for 6 weeks and are "hoping" they'll start to show up in two or three weeks.Found the same thing on the Internet- "On Backorder"