injector removal? HELP.

[ferret]

Is there a knak to doing this as ive removed the clamps/pipes etc and wd40ed them and i havent managed to remove one yet. Ive tapped them with a copper mallet and they are just looking at me takeing the [throw it] now.

Its a defender 200tdi.

[TechnoTurkey]

I had to soak and soak mine in the 90 before they would come out - persevere!

[mark.yellow.series.3]

slide hammer is the way to go.
although wd40 and very gental taps with a hammer might do it.
but you really need a pulling force to extract the little [!Expletive Deleted!].
also make sure you get the copper washers aswell.

[Xtremeteam]

take the clamps of so theres nothing holding them in,then scoot some lube around them & im sure a 15/16 mm spanner fits the top of the injector,& in a clockwise direction twist it a wee bitto get it to move,then if the whole injector starts to move use a pair of small pipe pliers to wiggle it & pull upwards,id be weary of using a sliding hammer incase it breaks the top of the injector

[DEF110]

A slide hammer is the only way to go. I just did this last week and until I borrowed a slide hammer from my local injection pump repairman I could not get them out. I used two cans of wd40 letting it sit over night and they still would not come out.
 I asked the MAN that rebuilt my pump if he had a slide hammer and he let me use it. May be it’s because I just spent 220 pounds with him on my pump. But with in 10 minutes I had the old ones out and the new ones in. A slide hammer is a must as all the muck and s**t collects down between the injector and the head and locks them in better than the retaining tab and nut. As I even tried to turn the engine over with them remove to see if the compression would loosen them or even shout them out, No luck.  

He had use an old injection pipe b-nut and welded it to a nut that screwed to the slide hammer. This would not brake the injector as it uses all the injector threads.