Chrysler sports car fuel injector failure

Chrysler sports car with Italian-made fuel injectors had O-ring damage on installation causing fuel leaks; injectors were being air-freighted by Learjet from Italy to Detroit. Tom thinks they may have contained diffusion-bonded parts, but the actual failure was an O-ring problem, not a diffusion bond problem. Mentioned as a possible exception to the "no diffusion-bonded automotive parts" rule.

I think I did know of some fuel injectors — Chrysler had a sports car and the fuel injectors were made in Italy. The real problem happened to be an O-ring, but I think they may have had some diffusion bonding in them. They were actually flying them over from Italy to Detroit in the Learjet because they were having so many of them fail. When they were sticking them in, the O-rings would get cut and then you had a leak in your fuel injector, and that wasn't good. It was holding up production of the automobiles. But that wasn't really a diffusion bonding problem.