{"id":25,"date":"2014-04-03T18:20:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T18:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solopcms.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2025-07-09T05:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:36:06","slug":"25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solopcms.com\/blog\/25\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Fuel Injection?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"woman

A broken Dodge PCM will leave you stranded<\/p><\/div>\n

When I came to the United States 10 years ago, my mother warned me that people
\nfrom outside of my hometown in Argentina were devils trying to take advantage of
\nme with their magic. Her warning said that not only would they try to put me down
\nat every corner, but they would try to take advantage of me because of the fact that
\nI would be considered an outsider.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"man<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been ten years since I left and I can say that her warning hasn’t been right until
\na few days ago when the car that took me about nine years to finally purchase
\nstarted to act up. My own little piece of magic started to sputter, run poorly while
\nidling and started to send smoke signals out of the exhaust pipe.<\/p>\n

\"Going<\/a><\/p>\n

I took my car in to the local \u201cwitchdoctor\u201d and he said that I’d need to pay him a fee
\nthat I thought was beyond outrageous for replacing something that I could hold right
\nin the palm of my hands: the fuel injectors.<\/p>\n

\"what<\/a><\/p>\n

Even though he tried to explain to me what they were, I still couldn’t believe him.
\nFor the first time in ten years, I thought that one of those \u201cwhite devils\u201d my mother
\nhad warned me of was trying to steal from me. So, I came home with one thought
\non my mind:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is Fuel Injection?\u201d<\/p>\n

Like any smart woman, I started to do research on just what fuel injectors are and if
\nthe asking price given by the mechanic I visited was anywhere near fair.<\/p>\n

It turned out that fuel injectors aren’t anywhere near magic; but they are something
\nthat seems to be fairly complicated because of the fact that there’s a component
\ncalled the ECU that controls the amount of fuel that gets injected.<\/p>\n

\"Fuel<\/a><\/p>\n

The ECU, or the engine control unit, receives information from oxygen sensors. It
\nautomatically adjusts the air-to-fuel ratio in direct response to how you drive.<\/p>\n

\"engine\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In other words, it provides the optimal amount of fuel to make the car work whether
\nyou’re just sitting there with your car idle or if you’re driving at 90 MPH down the
\nhighway. They’re really just a fancier and more efficient way of doing what
\ncarburetors did before the 1990s when electronic fuel injection become feasible..<\/p>\n

There’s two types of fuel injection systems: single point and multi-port fuel injection.<\/p>\n

The former type is used in older cars and acts at a single point just like a carburetor
\ndid, because automobile makers were lazier than my ex-husband.<\/p>\n

\"007fuelinjection\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The latter is used in my car and works more efficiently as there’s a fuel injector in
\neach cylinder of the car. This provides a faster and more efficient response over
\nsingle-point fuel injectors.<\/p>\n

As for the magic behind how fuel injectors themselves work, they’re actually so
\nsimple that even I can understand how they work without having to study much
\nabout how cars work. When you step on the pedal, the ECU tells your fuel injector to
\nopen. Pressurized fuel spurts out into your cylinder in precise measurements that are
\ndetermined by the ECU’s pulse width.
\nThe worst part about my story is that the mechanic I told you about really was trying
\nto rob me. After learning about fuel injectors, I took it to another more reputable
\nmechanic whom owned his own little \u201chole int eh wall\u201d shop to receive a quote that
\nwas a fraction of the first guy’s price.<\/p>\n

My new and more trustworthy mechanic told me that my fuel injectors weren’t bad,
\nnor did ECU repairs<\/a> need to take place. All he had to do was find one of the many
\nsensors involved in the fuel injection process and replace it.<\/p>\n

I asked him what sensors were involved with my fuel injection systems and he told
\nme that there were almost as many different sensors in my car as there are types of
\nshoes for people to wear. There’s one that detects how much fuel is flowing through
\nthe system, one that detects the throttle position, another for the voltage and
\nanother that monitors the manifold’s pressure.<\/p>\n

He started to explain each one to me and how it worked, but I told him that he’d
\nalready told me enough to gain my trust. I told him to replace the oxygen sensor,
\nand that was the best decision I’d made. Not only did that fix my car’s woes, but it
\nalso didn’t make my purse that much lighter.<\/p>\n

It just goes to show you that there are still people who will try to take advantage of
\nme just because I’m a woman. At least I’m able to say that I understand how one
\npart of my car works and to know when someone’s trying to pull the wool over my
\neyes. If you need Chrysler ECM<\/a> or Jeep PCM<\/a> repairs visit Solo Auto Computers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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