240D engine swap problem. Help!

I wonder if I've shot myself in the foot... Putting a '77 240D/automatic motor in an '82 240D/stick. Intake, inj. pump vac. garbage, vac. pump, etc. are different...no problem. Glow plugs might be. The '77 motor has the old (huge) glow plugs with the "zig-zag" resistance wire and no controller on the left fender. '82 had the standard (small) ones....and "change the head" is not one of the choices in this equation. Anyone "been there, done that?

Thanks!

Jim Steere
Everything Automotive
Crystal MI

[wheelguru]

Bill is right, the conversion kit will work for you. the kit was to change the big loop style plugs to the pencil style plugs. For a little while there were pencil style plugs made with the bigger OD.
I think that if you try and connect the existing wire to your existing glowplug set-up it will not heat the plugs long enough. The conversion kit (about $100 off ebay) will give you the plug style that you need and the OD to fit your head along with a bunch of stuff you do not need.
The other option is to take the old plugs, chisel out the inside, and run a tap into them to take the plugs off the newer head - presto, a converter for the newer plugs. -Andy