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Originally Posted by 63lincoln
Thanks for all the help guys!
I purchased some PB Blaster and hit the drain plug and glow plugs with it. Thought I would let it soak a bit and then change the glow plugs out.
With all the GP horror stories on the board, I wanted to take some kind of initial action before digging into them.
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Most of the real horror stories related to glow plugs are on the newer engines like the 606 with aluminum blocks and long, thin threaded shanks on the plugs that tend to break off due to dissimilar metal, corrosion or something. Then the head has to come off ... well you probably already read the stories. Like Brian said, don't worry about the 617. Use Beru or Bosch plugs.
You may want to have a long "grabber" tool handy to pick up the small nuts that affix the wire to the center posts, better yet a new nut or two just in case you lose one. They tend to fall down and disappear behind the IP.
I got to use a coathanger wire once to retrieve one. Small things like that can lead to a bad experience but you don't usually repeat the same thing again.