[Vwdiesel] 81 Rabbit electrical woes

Roger Brown r.c.brown at ieee.org
Fri Sep 19 10:28:58 PDT 2008


Rolf Pechukas wrote:
>> Are you getting any sparking when you touch the battery cable to the
>> glow plugs?
> 
> no
> what does that mean?
> bad ground??
> bad plug(s)?

No spark = no current = an open some place.  Since the head and block are grounded (or 
should be), then it is likely the plugs that are burned out.  One quick check would be to 
take a battery jumper cable and connect the battery - post to the head and try the + to 
the plugs.


-- 

   Roger


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