Thread: Do you always wait for Glowplug Light ??
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Old 11-14-2006, 08:07 AM
Jim Wickham Jim Wickham is offline
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Not a Mercedes but we had an Allis Chalmers 6080 Tractor growing up on the farm with a 4 cyl turbocharged diesel in it.... about 85HP 4 liter engine. It was not even setup with glow plugs, that thing would start at 10F every time, no starting fluid, now grid heater, no glow plugs, not plugged in. It had 10K hrs with out a rebuild and still ran like a top, no blowby no loss of power and still started great. I really don't think glow plugs are entirely necessary with all diesels. If mine fires easily without it I don't bother.
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