[Vwdiesel] (Glow Plugs) Have I reached the end...for now.

[gary]

Oh my God!

What an elegant idea!

Use one for glow plugs, and the other for radiator fan.

-Gary


On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 13:01, Roger Brown wrote:
> Roger Brown wrote:
> > See if you can hook up a light bulb to the glow plug bus to use it as a
> > test light.  Check the socket that the relay plugs into, I've found it
> > to be very fragile plastic and its not uncommon for some of the
> > supporting material behind the sockets to break and that leads to a poor
> > connection.  There is no transistor involved in supplying power to the
> > plugs, the relay contacts do all the switching, the other electronics in
> > with the relay do all the timing functions, but its the relay that
> > switches the power to the plugs.
> >         http://www.4crawler.com/Diesel/GlowPlug.shtml#TroubleShooting
> 
> Just for grins, I picked up a set of those LED washer nozzles. 
> Actually, I needed to replace the stock washers which seem to be no
> longer available.  But instead of wiring the LEDs to the parking lights,
> I plan on hooking them up to the glow plug bus.  This way, they will
> show me when the glow plugs are getting power without having to run more
> wires back from the engine compartment.