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Watched a guy at the shop try to clean injectors with carb cleaner
He was working on a 6.7 Powerstroke and just sprayed the whole thing down. Carb cleaner eats the seals on modern diesel injectors, it's not the same as an old gas engine. I had to stop him before he put it back together and wrecked a $400 part. How do shops not teach this basic stuff anymore?
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faith_thomas1d ago
That 6.7 Powerstroke has some really specific seals, it's wild. Gavinb97 has a point about the computer focus, but man, the basics still matter so much. You saved that guy a massive headache.
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hannahsingh2d ago
Ugh, this is everywhere now. It feels like basic, hands-on knowledge is just disappearing, replaced by quick guesses from a video. Soon we won't have anyone left who actually knows how things work.
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gavinb971d ago
Yeah, the part about hands-on knowledge disappearing hits hard. I read an article a while back about how the training for a lot of shop techs now is mostly just computer diagnostics. They don't get the same time under the hood learning what physical parts can and can't handle. So you get someone using a fix they know from older engines on new materials that react totally differently. It's a real gap.
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