Glow Plugs
Submitted: Tuesday, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:47
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Ok went to a reasonably good desiel machanic on Friday and he informs me that I should be replacing my glow plugs on my 80 series every 2 yrs. Any of you desiel owners do such a thing or do you wait till they fail.
thanks for any info
Reply By: David N. - Tuesday, Jun 15, 2004 at 16:21
Tuesday, Jun 15, 2004 at 16:21
I replace
mine regularly...
every time I change my vehicle.
We have three diesels in the family, one 24 years old (isuzu), one 14 (nissan) and one four.(nissan)
ALL are on original glowplugs!
If you want to throw away money, then go for it.
Think of it like this... They're unlikely to all fail at once, and I guarantee you you'll be able to start a 6 cyl motor with five working glow plugs- except maybe in the Antarctic.........
Save your money IMHO.
Cheers
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Reply By: Paul's lot - Tuesday, Jun 15, 2004 at 16:55
Tuesday, Jun 15, 2004 at 16:55
did 450000 in my lux using the replace as needed method. When they get lazy you will know you may get all or some of hard starting, white smoke on start, a miss in engine on cold start for a 5-10 seconds. Either way a auto elec can
test them and so can you if you get someone to show you. It's simply a matter of isolating the plugs by removing the bar that connects them and using a multimeter to
check the resistance of each one. once you bin shown it's easy and multimeters are only a couple a bucks.
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