Thread: EMERGENCY, HELP
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Old 08-02-2015, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Skippy View Post
If there was some on the stick, then you didn't run it out of oil. Have you checked to see if your glow plugs are working? On the old system like yours, if one fails, none of them will get hot.
This is important. Unless the system has been updated, the glow plugs are in series. One bad one means no light and no glow.

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Originally Posted by Greazzer
If the light does not come on at all, it could be a handful of things. I super tiny shot of ether and the car should fire right up assuming you don't have a fuel issue. If it fires right up, then it's not fuel and not compression. It's most likely the GPs.

Yes, S.C. is very hot ... lol a screen door to hell in the summer.
Aside from push starting, this is pretty much the only option if you have a bad glow plug and no way to replace it.
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