ellis93 wrote:Does the tester seem like a well built tool to you?
For the money spent, I think so. I don't know that it'd be a good,
long-lived investment for a diesel shop that would use it regularly (like, every other day).
Cast base (the factory description says aluminum, but without looking at it hard today, I thought it was cast iron), a steel cylinder. The fittings and valve appear substantial. The gauge, while basic, appears to move tightly with the pulses if not snubbed. No slop in it's movement that I can detect. The injector high pressure feedlines that come with it, 12mm & 14mm, look like two simple regular, 8" or so, injector lines. The reservoir is made of sheet metal and uses a large banjo-bolt type attachment to the pump. The lever is just standard sheet metal pipe with a cheap, gripped handle. It came with a small bag of spare seals.
Looking at the description of this unit, compared to those others listed, it's suppose to be the heavy-duty version.
Briefly toying with it, I found I was able to have the pressure creep up to the point of Popping the injector. It seems fairly easy to be consistent with working the lever and have the injector pop consistanly. Doing so three or four times appeared to me to be enough to arrive at a good average pop number.
I dunno. So long as it doesn't spring a leak externally or internally, it should be golden.