When you say original glow plugs, are you referring to the pencil type?



Assuming it was one of the pencil type glow plugs that failed, it makes me consider the pre-chamber design from the original engineer's perspective. I wonder if they would have designed the prechamber in a different way if they had originally used pencil type glow plugs? Seems that this problem would not have occurred with loop type. What happens in a modern diesel if the pencil glow plug disintegrates in such a way?


-Henry C.

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