did diesel purge kill my glow plugs?

[geoffraynak]

okay.
i'm trying to recount my weekend of events
it is killing me that i can't find the cause of the glow-plug failure
coincidence is causality in my book.

i had a previous post on 'order of operations'
and that list was effectively to do a valve adjustment, purge, do a compression test

i never got to the compression test because i started chasing the lack of a gp light on my dash

question: can diesel purge kill my glow plugs?

here is a before/during/after set of videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC9zZGPFyE4&feature=g-upl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbcQ-O14wA&feature=g-upl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z9vyrbtQI4&feature=g-upl


as you can see with the 'during' ... the fuel is pretty nasty and black
do you think that the carbon/soot/gunk deposited on the glow plugs and made them inoperable?

i cannot remember if the GP light worked before starting the 300SD after the purge or not ...
but the car was definitely warm after 45+ minutes of revving to burn through two cans of purge.


never stop learning.
geoff