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Old 01-10-2010, 11:33 AM
rhodes2010 rhodes2010 is offline
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So, car started a week ago, let it sit all week.
Now it won't start again.

I have cleaned the ground strap, thinking that resistance was
from frame to engine and that this resistance was allowing
voltage to drop at the glow plugs. Did not help.

One poster said to ream glow plugs to stop this from happening.

Everything I read about reaming talks about better starting and
longer glow plug life. None of the posts refer to not starting.

I found this post on reaming glow plugs, have never reamed out gp's.

Glow plug reaming

Can anyone confirm that the loss of voltage at the glow plugs
can be caused by carbon build up ?

As posted earlier in this thread, I have voltage at the glow plug wires
when the wires are not attached to the glow plugs. The relay appears
to be working as it should.
When I attach wires to glow plugs and turn on key the voltage is zero.
Even if I am attached to only one glow plug. And it does not matter
which glow plug. Any one plug causes voltage to drop to zero.
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