dbarilow
over worked
Well its 6:30 am 32 deg and I parked my truck nowhere near a plug.... lets hope all the wisdom of the oilburners will get me through........I'll let you know how it goes
Cold Start???????
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in the 3 years that i have owned mine it has never been plugged in.as a matter of fact mine doesnt have a block heater.the shop that replaced the engine before i bought it must have forgot to installthe heater.im too lazy to drain it and install one.it will start all the way down into the 10s and below with a few glow plug cycles.
dbarilow
over worked
well she fired right up no problems for the sake of argument I wanted to see how many cycles of the plugs she needed to fire so waited for the light to go out (8 seconds) and cranked about 2 revolutions ans vroom she took off chalk one up for the good guys!!!!
aaklingler
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Have you tested your glow plugs lately, i think 8 sec. is a little short?
dbarilow
over worked
they are all new but I have 1 disconected the top half of the plug broke off
aaklingler
Registered User
Is the unhooked wire just hanging out or is it splisted in somewhere, is the hex still there?
dbarilow
over worked
the wire is hanging free the hex is gone it is a champion plug so I wasnt going to leave it connected
If pulling and replacing the plug is not an option, you may have to temporarily hook up an equivelent electrical load to fool the GPC into working right. A high intensity light bulb of some kind may do the trick.
aaklingler
Registered User
Plug another champion in and ground it, but put it somewhere its not gonna burn something.
dbarilow
over worked
Do you think I could plumb it into the intake? until I can pull the heads
budtoh3zo
Registered User
I have ran with 7 glow plugs last winter no problems, just runs on 7 till the 8th warms up enough, It would start at -40*F without being pluged it
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