First of all, finding this forum has been amazing. All the knowledge shared has been massively appreciated. I’m process of my head gasket replacement, and looking at my injectors I am wondering if it’s a good idea to just replace them or if cleaning with carb or break cleaner will suffice. if I’m replacing them, I’d prefer not to pay $100+ per injector since I am already about $400 into the project. Has anyone had any success with re manufactured fuel injectors? I can get all four, for about $80.
If I were you I'd avoid losing focus on the headgasket job as injectors are problematic at times for DIY folks. Once you get the headgasket done and everything is working well, make it your next project if you want. But combining too many additional projects into a head gasket jobs makes diagnosis way harder if things don't go as planned. As for which parts to buy, I always buy the cheapest possible parts to better be able to improve knowledge and experience of PriusChat community. It's surprising how often cheap parts end up working just as well as expensive OEM. Of course those rare times that it doesn't work out is a bit of a hassle... So if you want to do that for us it'd be much appreciated.
I just clean my fuel injectors with carb cleaner and replace the 4 vibration dampener gaskets and I recommend replacing the 4 fuel injector o-rings to the fuel rail. I didn’t replace my o-ring because they only gave me 3 in the kit, maybe I should’ve bought an extra to replace it but I’ll do that next time.