pic of my old plugs

[jim_22]

Got my truck back. The old plugs are stamped "BERU GERMANY 0 100 271101". No broken tips, although they look well used, age unknown. One broken plug on the electrical end. The others had low resistance (good) on 6 plugs and infinite on 1 plug. So 2 were bad and perhaps others on the verge of failure. INDY charged me $156 (I bought the new Beru plugs online), 2 hours labor. Thought that was reasonable since I chickened out doing it myself.

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[dgr]

How hard is that one under the turbo to get to? I think I should start changing glow plugs on the weekend.

 

[icanfixall]

When changing the glow plugs a simple suggestion is to do the ones under the turbo. Then every plug after that gets easier to do. Good to know the plugs were beru too. To say you chickened out isn't fair... You choose to allow someone else to do for you what you felt you didn't have the knowledge to do. theres nothing wrong with knowing your limitations. A man has to know his limitations. So how does it start now... I bet it fires right up once the plug lite goes out...

 

[jim_22]

When changing the glow plugs a simple suggestion is to do the ones under the turbo. Then every plug after that gets easier to do. Good to know the plugs were beru too. To say you chickened out isn't fair... You choose to allow someone else to do for you what you felt you didn't have the knowledge to do. theres nothing wrong with knowing your limitations. A man has to know his limitations. So how does it start now... I bet it fires right up once the plug lite goes out...

Thanks for your kind words. Glow plug stories are kind of scary. And I just expected the worst junk to be in there. Based on one cold start with snow flakes flying, it was super. Especially compared to how steamed I was when I could not start it last week at 45 degrees.