Somewhat a 911...WTS light not coming one truck not starting

[gdhillon]

Ok so heres the skinny, had to move the truck out of the driveway onto the street, Its been there for about 3 days and the temperature was pretty warm (-5C) today its -14C and we have a snofall warning so i decided I would park the truck back in the driveway incase the city decided to plow the street. anyway I went to start the truck and I didnt get any WTS light at all, so I waited about 15 seconds and cranked it didnt want to start at all and there was a bit of a odd smell in the cab kind of smelt like diesel. I did take a flashlight and do a quick check over but its pretty chilly so i will look at if the gp controller is unpluged tomorrow. Any one have any thoughts on this situation?

 

[chris142]

I cant believe you said -5c was pretty warm! When its cooler here my ign switch dont always light up my wts light. I gotta wiggle it some.

 

[Can30Diesel]

I grew up a couple hours south of PG, in a place some of us called "Willy's Puddle" in the winter anything less than -20 is pretty much considered warm.

Sounds like the GP controller didn't engage. you should be able to manually engage it with a jumper wire off the battery to the relay in a pinch if the wiggle trick mentioned above doesn't do it.

 

[gdhillon]

Haha ya I personally enjoy -5 to about -10C, I am not that big of a fan of summer cause you can get away from coold by layering but summer you dont have much of a chance. Okay I will try wiggling the ignition switch around thanks

Good ol Williams lake, I used to haul chips out of tolko there for a very brief period in my life. Thanks okay So i will take a jumper cable from the positive lead of one of the batteries and attach that to the red wire on the relay? And then let it glow for about 10 seconds?

 

[Can30Diesel]

yup thats pretty much how the manual glow plug conversion works.

 

[gdhillon]

Weird I didnt even wiggle the tumbler and the WTS light came on today. While it was sitting on the road the hood was slightly cracked maybe something froze up? Either way I am going to take the air cleaner and look for loose connections and maybe put some dielectric on the connections

 

[OLDBULL8]

Dielectric grease is NOT for making a better contact, it's called dielectric, meaning it will NOT conduct electricity. Lot's of people put that on connector pins and whatnot, then wonder why they have trouble with sensors and/or connections. Smear it on the outside to keep moisture and corrosion away.

 

[Zaggnutt]

Recently had similar problem. One day - started. Few days later - no start, WTS light not coming on. While checking connections I over-torqued one of the large terminals on the GP Controller and it snapped. Seemed brittle, probably original. Replaced it and truck started like it couldn't wait for me. Good luck!!!