60 series 2 h glow plug relay

Hi check in behind the glovebox. A lot of tojos have the glow relay and timer there
Cheers
Dave

After much trouble with my 60 series glow plugs system I finally ditch it altogether. Do not know about all of 60-s, but mine has dummy relay that was activated plugs for 20-30 sec each time regardless what temperature outside and want coolant temperature is. 80 has far more intelligent system BTW. Thus it was leading to premature battery wear – I have replaced 2 of them (mind you, there was good batteries, not cheap stuff!!) in 3 years. Plus whole setup in 60 very doggy – they have “super glow plug” that preheat air and 6 6 volts (yep, 6 volts) glow plugs connected in parallel in series with “super” one. That means if any of cylinder plugs go off, then voltage on rest of them increases and they became go off one by one in few month! Glow plugs not cheap either, so this pre-heat system cost me an arm and a leg in my old 60.

Patently 60 LC cannot be started without glow plugs because it uses “indirect” (do not ask me what that means) injections. Again 80 is better design and can be started without glow plugs at all – just require few more cranks. So that what I have done. I have installed 6 12v glow plugs and connect them directly to original solenoid by-passing “master” one at all. Then instead of connecting solenoid to stupid relay I put direct button on dashboard. First things in the morning I depress button for few seconds before crank. Colder morning would require 15 sec while summer one only 5. With hot engine I never used glow plugs – just crank it. For 5 years I have not replaced even one glow plug and been using the same battery. Coldest temperature where I have started my modified 60 was about –5 degrees in Kosciusko NP.

Good Luck
Serg

thanks for your help guys most welcome.

have been playing all nite and found the pre timer unit and did as the book says. found the switch on top of teh engine to be faulty and unplugged it found it caked in slit from many a muddy engine was down. so have cleaned it all up and as engine is now warm will have to wait till tomorrow to see if that is what caused it. if not a trip to the toyota let me charge you a mad price for that part sir.

will let you know, just incase some other person has the same trouble one day they can save loads of time by checking what i have found thus far :-)

thanks agin

gra

ok here it is,

the sensor on top of the engine was a bad connection, and took a while to turn off second glow, but when the engine is warm it doesnt allow second glow.

so there u have it most happy and thank you for your advise and help

gra