[Vwdiesel] Glow plug update and another parts need

[Val Christian]

In my early Rabbit days, I had three VW diesels (77, 78 and 79) before 
I bought a used one.  It was a 79 from a friend of a friend.  Kind of
a Heath Kit car.  John had disassembled it in Bruce's garage.  At the
time Bruce and I lived two houses apart.  This was a deal among ham radio
people, and I got the car for a fair price, we pushed it to my garage,
and I put it together.  Never had to install any antennas, though.  It
came with more mounts on the roof than I could ever use.

One thing that was right on this car is that it had two rear window 
defogger switches.  The second one had the 8mm nut from a glow plug
imbedded into the switch.  If you wanted to start the car in the winter,
you just looked at the clock, and picked your glow time.  Kept the car
from getting stolen.  The switch ran the relay for the glow plugs.

The GP relays get water into them, corosion and water rattling around
then seem to cause erratic actuation of the relay.  I've cleaned them
out, cleaned contacts, resoldered the boards, and replaced components.
The case prys off carefully with two small slotted screwdrivers.

Val

> 
> First of all an update on the 4 burned out glow plugs on my Caddy.  Two 
> days after I replaced all of the plugs my son lets me know that he can 
> hear the relay clicking on and off repeatedly.  Ah the culprit reveals 
> itself.  So we replaced the glow plug relay and now all is right with 
> the world.
> 
> On another glow plug line, somehow when I removed the electrical guts 
> from my donor truck, I managed to NOT get the glow plug relay socket.  
> Any of you wonderful, smarter than normal and better looking than most 
> people have a heap that you use for parts that you can give up the glow 
> plug relay socket and wiring, just to the glow plug fuse would be nice. 
>   Let me know and what you want for it.  That way I can begin the 
> conversion of the Scirocco.  thanks, Hayden
> 
> Visit my website at  www.home.earthlink.net/~dieseltdi
> Proud owner of:
> 2004 Passat TDI GLS, 2.0l, 8 valve, 134 HP, 247 lb/ft of torque, Blue 
> Graphite, Anthracite leather interior, ABS, ESP.
> 1998 Jetta TDI (Wetterauer Chipset, 2 1/2" exhaust, K&N Filter, 119K+ 
> miles, and running biodiesel)
> 1981 Rabbit Pickup ( with a freshly rebuilt turbo engine, 10K+ on 
> engine now), burns biodiesel and a WVO system is in the works.
> 1981 Scirocco awaiting a turbodiesel transplant.
> One, yet to be finished, Caddy trailer (the back end of the truck that 
> gave its life to my just completed Rabbit Pickup).
> And many, many, many VWs; from a 1946 Beetle (11 Beetles total), to 
> Vans (5), Rabbits (3), Karmen Ghia (1), Jettas (5), Passat (1), Dasher 
> (1), New Beetle (1), and Rabbit Pickups (3) most now gone but not 
> forgotten.
> 
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