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Old 01-22-2013, 03:49 PM
kerry kerry is offline
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Originally Posted by marco5 View Post
No reason to apologize, in that case I will be changing them out for the pencil style.

I will also only do one glow cycle next cold start, followed by waiting for the "click", followed then by continous cranking until she fires reducing my chance of killing the battery before the engine starts.
Don't do that. When the relay clicks, the glow plugs go off. You want the glow plugs to be on when you engage the starter. They will stay on when the starter is engaged if they have not clicked off prior to the starter engaging. So you should wait longer than the glow plug light but not so long as for the relay to turn off.
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