Fuel injection nozzle for internal combustion engines

A fuel injection nozzle having an outwardly opening valve needle to which a piston is connected and on which a cap is mounted. The cap encloses a damping chamber, which communicates in a throttled manner, via the play between the piston and the cap, with the flow course of the fuel. Oriented toward the cap is a blocking shoulder attached to the housing, which shoulder restrains the cap, after an undamped pre-stroke (hv), relative to the valve needle, which continues to move, its continued movement being damped thereby. A spring acts via a spacer body upon the cap, the spacer body keeping the cap at a distance from the blocking shoulder corresponding to the pre-stroke (hv) in the closing position of the valve needle. As a result, the prescribed set-point value of the pre-stroke (hv) can be adhered to very precisely.