A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine has a lubricity
improver supply for adding a lubricity improver to low-viscosity fuel
supplied to a fuel injection apparatus of the engine. A controller
controls the lubricity improver supply so that the amount of the
lubricity improver added to fuel at the inlet to the fuel injection
apparatus is increased as engine rotation speed, engine load, or
injection pressure is increased. With the system, wear or sticking of the
plunger can be prevented even when low-viscosity fuel is used by
improving lubrication conditions to secure necessary lubrication
condition for the sliding part in accordance with engine operation
conditions, fuel temperature and viscosity.