Attention all Glowplug guru's

Davoe, its about a 60 amp draw on the 2H motor.
They have a two stage timer, one time period to turn off the little light on the dash to tell you its OK to start now and another, temperature dependent, time after this to turn the plugs off. Mine never playred up while that motor was under the bonnet.

Regarding the pulsing glow plugs, there must be something funny with the timer or, perhaps, a connection to it to cause that. With a correct time set and a good battery the motor should fire in less than one revolution of cranking.
If that's not happening one or more of the glow plugs might be dead. To check them one first has to undo the busbar that connects all of them together. Then measure with a multimeter or test lamp, good ones are like a short circuit, bad oned are open circuit. My second hand troopie had 5 bad glow plugs when I bought it, replacing all of them fixed any cold starting problems.
Klaus

Thanks for the info v8 my problem stemmed after I had the head replaced and "mysteriosly" my glow plug control relay my engine control module and my edic motor all gave up the ghost together. as I was booked in for 6 weeks and 14,000k of exploreoz I went anyway just was hard to start when cold and couldnt be turned off - many $$$ at the sparkys upon my return grrrrrrrrrr

For the record my Rocky does the same thing - on very cold mornings or if I drained the battery a bit over night (left the engel on) I let it pulse a few times before starting - usually fires up straight away.

Rockys have kick ass batterys eh!
Can't beat an N100!! :-)
They are awsome beasts!