[Vwdiesel] [Audi-VW-Diesels] '84 Quantum TD no start :(

[David Cook]

Andrew-

You don't have to remove the IP to R&R the glow plugs.
 It will make things much easier if you do remove the
injector lines though.  Have a magnet ready when you
remove the bus bar for the GPs so you don't drop one
of the nuts.

Also, it is suggested by some that you run an
individual wire to each GP so you can test them more
easily and individually in the future.

David

--- Andrew Buc <andrewbuc at staxman.net> wrote:

> Just a progress report, although there's not a lot
> of progress to  
> report. Battery is a group 41, 5 years old, but
> tested out fine.
> 
> To answer a couple of folks' questions: It cranks
> w/o firing, and  
> there's no white smoke from the exhaust, so I
> suspect no fuel. When I  
> have daylight again tomorrow, I'll check out the
> fusible link, now  
> that I have a pretty good idea of where it is. The
> PO gave me a  
> spreadsheet of maintenance he'd done on the car, and
> apparently he  
> replaced the glow plugs, but not the GPR, in the
> last year and a half.
> 
> To get any farther, I'll need to get a continuity
> tester or  
> voltmeter, and that could happen tomorrow.
> 
> Looking under the hood also raises a question: To
> remove the glow  
> plugs, would the IP have to come off? There sure
> isn't a lot of  
> clearance in there! I'm tentatively betting that it
> isn't the glow  
> plugs, but you never know. I'm not confident of my
> ability to R&R the  
> IP, and if it comes to that, I'll most likely take
> the car to my  
> regular garage. Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


David Cook
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