[Vwdiesel] glow plug resistance

[raymond greeley]

I understand just replacing old  with new, the labor is the killer, I did that 
very thing with the daily driver. While changing them out i also eleminated the buss bar so i could seperate each glow plug circut in future diagnostics. certainly i can apply 12 volts to those out of the engine
how is it that i test the individual glow plugs while in the car.
 I remember reading here that we measure resistance though i don't
see a consistant measure when i do this. maybe my gauge is not woriking
correctly or the connection is suspect.  
> Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 22:45:56 -0600> From: jhsg at sasktel.net> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] glow plug resistance> To: rgreeley2 at hotmail.com> > give them 12v with a spare car battery or use jumper wires from your car > battery. They get red. THe ones that don't are not good.> If you have the motor out, just install new ones behind the injection > pump. Yeah, I know, it seems silly when you have a handfull of them, > but you'll understand when you're wrenching out the used one in a month...> -j> > raymond greeley wrote:> > Hello All, Needing some info on checking the condition/resistance of glow plugs. several are out of the> > engine and I have an engine out of the car on a bench that> > i would also like to test the glow plugs on along with testing several other items before i install the engine. what kind of > > ohms am i looking for as the archives are unclear or is there> > another measure i should be testing for. thanks, ray> > _________________________________________________________________> > Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy!> > http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us> > _______________________________________________> > Vwdiesel mailing list> > Vwdiesel at vwfans.com> > http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/vwdiesel> > 
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