"Karl Townsend" wrote in message
anews.com...
"The Kid" has been fixin on his diesel pickup at my place. He got it
running
today but only on seven cylinders. he's got a programmer to read codes and
#3 injector is not operating. he thinks at least four hours work to
replace
it.

that's time he hasn't got right now. He's working six or seven days a
week.
He closes on his new home next week and has to move out of the condo and
have it ready for renters June 1.

Anyway, will it harm anything to drive it 50 miles to his new digs? Then
he
can do an hour or so each evening.

Karl




My suspicion, (not gospel) is that he will be fine especially if the
injector is *not* spraying fuel. I have driven gassers for thousands of
miles with a miss on one of the cylinders and the only noticeable problem
was the engine ran rough, had less power and didn't get as may MPG as it did
before.

50 miles is not very far being a little out of balance especially on a heavy
duty engine.


--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.