Wanna know how you have good compression?

[jake12tech]

I started all three of my diesels this morning around 5am at 17 or so degrees.. Both my 99 E300 and 92 300D have had issues with coughing and misfire at cold start and some grey smoke. The 92 300D had always done that, I thought it was just wearing rings and the black car hadn't had issues with smoking at all until two weeks ago. Well, followed the dieselgiant steps and found out I had 4/5 dead glow plugs on my 92 300D and 3/6 on my 99 E300. Both started without issue, a little extra crank time but didn't stall out once. I would like to think the white car has great compression for its mileage at that point.

Looks like I'm doing the om606 glow plug nightmare, and om602 shouldn't be half as bad. I think if I run the 99 nice and hot on the highway and plug it in and keep the motor warm and use air tools, it should get those glow plugs out no issue.