[Vwdiesel] ROGRS, the glowplug killer disease

[Roger Brown]

LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
>>Short term fix, is put the relay in for starting, and remove for driving.
>>
> 
> 
>   I did that for a while.  It got OLD after a week or two!  ;-)  Might have 
> to 
> get a new temp sender one of these days too after Roger's extensive 
> researsh on ROGRS.

After my research pointing towards the sensitivity to temp sender inputs on the relays, I started checking out my engine.  The 
sender was OK, I figured the wiring may be bad, so I ran a new wire and that did not help, either.  But in hooking up the wire, 
I did find the cause.  In my case, the plastic bit supporting the T terminal on the relay socket had broken.  While the socket 
looked OK and the relay seemed to plug in OK.  But if you looked closer, you could see the T contact push down into the socket 
as the relay was inserted since there was nothing behind it.  So I was able to glue the broken plastic back together and then 
insert the relay and viola, perfect operation.

-- 
    Roger