Well guys!!! So after much soul searching and head scratching i came up with a solution for my glow plug problem. I took two old glow plugs, i hulled them out lead soldered them up to create a plug and installed them . Taped up the 2 glow plugs on the harness. And now i am good to go. Autolite has sent me a "claim" kit for when i eventuality pull my heads off. While this will be far in the future they are aware that there is a problem .I was highly ticked off when i read one reply that gave me a history as to how these particular glow plugs were apparently repurposed to work for these idi engines. Instead of coming up with a design , they just jury rigged an existing product line with smaller wire to limit voltage in order to fill a manufacturer's requirement. This is so typical of the corporate mindset .(1 reason for more homework/ reasearch)So, at least when this 6.9 comes out and I swap in my 7.3. In i can submit what my costs were because of the bad glow plugs. And i will submit some if the info i got from this website so as to recover my costs . But, i do have to send them the rest if the glow plugs i revover upon dissaembly for their engineers to examine. Which is ok by me as long as i get reimbursed for my costs ,which happened because if their product. I did try several things to get them out ,but all to no avail. Trust me when i say all the replies i got were much appreciated, even the butt chewing one's
. Everyone was right in saying i ought to have done my ""homework": prior to just slapping in a new set of gp's. That was a terrible error in judgement on my part and I own it now. And at my age (68) i really should have put more fore thought and research into it. IT WILL NOT HAPPEN TWICE YA'LL, I PROMISE!!!!!( caps on ,on purpose this time lol). Thanks to all who took time to reply to this "old " but, new/ newbie./ rookie .I truly have realized just how much I have to learn and how many miles I havevto go before i can even remotely begin to scratch the surface where most if y'all have been successfully trenching and plowing ground for years. I have repeatedly said that i am in "Pe-k"PRE-K And I do hope ,one day , to have finally gotten the confidence and experience in being an " oil burner" as you guys obviously have. Thank yall so much for all the ideas i truly am humbled and thankful for a bunch of guys who truly want to help a " rookie" be on his A game .Y'all Be safe out there guys ,arrive alive cause you all have someone your going home to !!!! Thanks again tim thomas
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