It is never pleasant to experience an injector noise on your Lincoln Continental. It is a noise that appears repeatedly, usually when you accelerate or your engine is idling. However, this symptom may be related to several kind of problems with your car injectors. It may not be anything major, but when a repeated noise arises, you have to be sure. Especially since repairing your Lincoln Continental’s injectors can be expensive. That’s why our team decided to prepare this article in order to help you see more clearly, learn about the different possible failures and identify your trouble. To do this, we will first look at the normal function and usefulness of the injectors in your Lincoln Continental, then at the possible causes from which an injector noise may come.
Purposes of the injectors
Injectors are a very useful component of the operation of your engine unit. They were released to the modern automobiles about 20 years ago. Before their arrival, more conventional carburettor-type intake systems were employed, which handled the intake of air and fuel into the engine cylinders. With the injectors, manufacturers now have the possibility, thanks to the injectors pump, to control electronically each stage of the intake process very accurately (quantity of fuel injected, air/fuel mixture) via the analysis of the data collected from the various sensors equipping the car (engine temperature, acceleration level, engine speed, etc.). Their aim is therefore to inject under high pressure a precise quantity of an air/fuel mixture at a perfect timing to get the best possible combustion in the cylinders.
The different reasons of a clicking or knocking noise based on the injectors of your Lincoln Continental
Finding out injector noises on your Lincoln Continental may result from different sources, we will now concentrate on the potential causes of these. In most cases, the common noise of a faulty injector is of the snap type. Here are the different sources of these noises and the solutions to be applied to prevent them. If you experience another clicking noise but it is not from your injectors, we suggest you to read this article about clicking noise on Lincoln Continental to locate the cause.
The causes for injector clicking or knocking noise Lincoln Continental
A clicking or knocking noise from your injectors can be justified by different causes. In fact, the injectors of your Lincoln Continental have three main tasks, to manage the vaporisation of the fuel, i.e., to convert the liquid into “gas” during injection, to facilitate its combustion. Then, its goal is to deal with the air/fuel dosage and at last the homogeneity of the mixture, always with the target of improving combustion. If one of these three features is modified, the main functionality of the injectors will be disturbed and this will lead to poor combustion. This bad combustion will be a violent explosion in the cylinders due to bad timing, or a bad quantity of mixture or finally an inhomogeneous mixture and will provoke thoses knocking or clicking noises on your Lincoln Continental. The main cause of these trouble in most cases comes from a particle that gets into the injectors. The accuracy of the injector being in the nanometer range, any possible obstruction will inevitably end up in a malfunction of the injector. If after verifying, this noise comes from another component of the engine of your Lincoln Continental, check this article for more infos.
The effects of injector noise on Lincoln Continental
Now that we have analyzed the diverse reasons for injector noise on your Lincoln Continental, we will end by stating the possible end result of malfunctioning one or more of your injectors. Whether only one is clogged, or broken, or your entire fuel rail is involved, you cannot escape these side effects which can quickly become major….
First, you risk destroying your exhaust unit in the long run, because the unburned fuel residues that will end up in your exhaust system can corrode the metal in it.
One of the most known repercussions experienced by drivers is a distinctive loss of power. In fact, if your engine is running on 3 out of 4 cylinders for example, you will obviously have a loss of power
Finally, you risk degrading one of your pistons or your engine. Poor combustion will quickly affect your cylinders or pistons and your engine may tighten.
Here are three little tips to limit the risks linked to your injectors and protect you from engine failure:
- Do not drive at the bottom of the tank, as you may absorb impurities
- Use quality fuel
- Think of changing your diesel fuel filter regularly>
