Ouch! Those are some steep prices. I'm pretty sure I'm getting the same thing with the parts I bought for about $25. I'm sure that time will tell though...

I can see that the pencil plugs are more efficient than the old loop ones with the resisitor wires. I've got 5 of them on the way. I guess moving to parallel rather than series accounts for more amps and thus the 80A fuse. Should be interesting, for me anyway. I like experimenting; that's why I bought the 300D, I won't be too heartbroken if things get screwed up on it.

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I just had problems with my glow plugs. I went to diesel giant and read about trouble shooting. It was real easy,take your plug off of the relay and check what ones are bad. I had two bad glow plugs.Changed them out and the glow plug light comes on and the car starts better then ever. 5 min to trouble shoot and 1 hour to change the glow plugs.

I always wondered why MB used the energy wasting resistors between the series GP instead of higher voltage GP. I know they are there to drop the voltage and they were originally used without the resistors on 6 volt systems. But why, when the 12 volt systems were installed, didn't MB call Mr. Bosch and say: "We buy a million GP a year so we want ones that operate on 12 volts or we will buy from someone who will supply GP that operate in a 12 volt system without the resistors"?

That must be one of the world's great mysteries.

I'm sure Bosch would have complied as they did when MB decided to go to 12 volt parallel GP.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could get an insider at MB that could answer questions like these?

P E H

I have always done the manual glowplug thing on my diesels and especially on diesel conversions, on the OM617 engine seven seconds is the time i observed for a gp to reach peak temperture. The relay I use in the UK is a lucas (old mini type) but in the USA I find that a lawnmower solonoid is a good one to use and are only about 10 bux.

Good luck with this, when I suggested this last year there was some naysayers but i was not put off I have done this many times.


Steve

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Silver 1984 300SD, Manual glow plug timer, push the button and count!
1997 GEO tracker
1986 Olds cutlass supreme, soon to have fuel injection
Various dodge trucks hope to use the bits to make a good one......oneday.
1951 Ferguson TO30 tractor.

Yah, then we could talk to the guy that designed the W123 glove box door and latch

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

Hopefully he was fired.

[QUOTE=Steve Gold]

Good luck with this, when I suggested this last year there was some naysayers but i was not put off I have done this many times.

I installed my system when I was short of $ as a "temperary fix", that was several years ago. I really like it and will do the same thing to my "85" when the relay crapps out on that car. Its an anti theft device also

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

[QUOTE=Stevo]Actually, the anti theft bit was something I reasoned as well. Although no one would really want the 300D since it looks like an abandoned car anyway.

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