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Old 12-03-2008, 12:16 AM
Brian Carlton Brian Carlton is offline
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Originally Posted by OM618 View Post

That's one reason I'm very hesitant to jump on the glow plugs as the culprit. It was indeed my first assessment too. I will certainly be testing the electrical out the first spare afternoon I've got, it just seems odd that a "daily driver" car that hadn't shown any sign of glow plug troubles would fail like this; but does this actually seem plausible?

You don't jump on anything. You let the data give you the answers.

In your case, you get a voltmeter and put the positive lead on the tip of one of the glow plugs. The negative lead goes to the battery. Then, you get a helper to turn the key to the #2 position. Read the voltmeter and see if you have approx. 12V.
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