[Vwdiesel] Glow plugs and not so anti-seize
Val Christian
val at mongobird.com
Tue Feb 6 07:43:20 EST 2007
The TDI harness is flip flop from VAG-COM. I'm "enjoying" an
intermittent harness. Some people have rebuilt their's,
and there are some pictures and descriptions on Fred's site.
I haven't tackled that yet, as everyone else's car, kitchen sink,
and bathtub takes precedence over my car.
Val
>
> Today was a no work, fix the cars day. Started with
> Dad's '02 Golf which had displayed a "glow plug intermittent,
> #4" code. Ok, pull it in, pull #4 and check. It's fine. What
> the??? #3, fine, #2, fine, ok, #1? Bad. Hmmm, computer
> programmers never talked to real "car" people to see that
> the last plug in the line of the harness is actually #1 not
> #4 simply because it's the 4th one on that line. Oh well...
> Lunch time so we pull the Kubota RV900 in the shop and
> I go eat. Just as I was ready to head back Dad calls. "Uh,
> what do I do when the glow plug just wants to spin and not
> come out?" WHAT??? I asked what on Earth he was doing?
> He decided he wanted to jump ahead and check glow plugs
> on the Passat, which had been showing a GP code for several
> years now. He broke it in half luckily rather than strip the
> threads out of the head. Took it to a friend who has much
> better luck (and patience) at "EZ outing" stuff.
> Those glow plugs are so easy to get to that I HIGHLY
> recommend pulling them and putting SOME SORT of anti
> seize on the threads whatever your mileage! Save yourself
> a simliar problem or find it when you can plan for it rather than
> a sudden surprise! (We have a brush in a can of graphite and
> oil that has served us well.)
> Otherwise the day went well. Found the bad plug in the
> Golf, one in the pickup, fixed the lights on the Kubota, welded
> its pipe back to the muffler and found that all the coolant plugs
> and remaining glow plugs on the Passat are fine. Now if it still
> codes then it's apparently the gp harness.
> Get out there and anti-seize!!!
> Loren
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