Carrera911
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I've been doing a ton of work on a buddies truck he bought not running. All his glow plugs were shot, most of them missing part of the tip. Before I replaced all of them, I tested the output of the EESS. It puts out full voltage during the wait light and about 5 volts for 30 seconds or so. This is without starting the truck. The EESS was also mounted without fully threaded bolts so it was loose. So I fixed that, made a grounding harness and the truck started as normal and had the regular after glow pulsing.
This was about a month ago and I've been fixing the numerous other things wrong with the truck. I've started it maybe a dozen times since and went to start it yesterday to find out it's already killed most all the plugs. So I disassembled the Nartron EESS and it looks perfect inside, except for the Chinese relay. (can't believe they'd use that in a military vehicle). The USA made solenoid is also from 2015 so it's a fairly new box.
After doing some digging, it looks like these Nartron units can do this and the KDS is the one to go with. Is this just a randomly bad box that needs to be replaced?
![IMG_5607.jpg IMG_5607.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/540/540821-5617a77f54c6900e2c968995ec648b6a.jpg)
![IMG_5606.jpg IMG_5606.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/540/540820-09421178b4bfc411f34ad27aceb64c79.jpg)
![IMG_5608.jpg IMG_5608.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/540/540819-59f9216e9ee6bd7bbd003053cd2d60b4.jpg)
This was about a month ago and I've been fixing the numerous other things wrong with the truck. I've started it maybe a dozen times since and went to start it yesterday to find out it's already killed most all the plugs. So I disassembled the Nartron EESS and it looks perfect inside, except for the Chinese relay. (can't believe they'd use that in a military vehicle). The USA made solenoid is also from 2015 so it's a fairly new box.
After doing some digging, it looks like these Nartron units can do this and the KDS is the one to go with. Is this just a randomly bad box that needs to be replaced?
![IMG_5607.jpg IMG_5607.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/540/540821-5617a77f54c6900e2c968995ec648b6a.jpg)
![IMG_5606.jpg IMG_5606.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/540/540820-09421178b4bfc411f34ad27aceb64c79.jpg)
![IMG_5608.jpg IMG_5608.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/540/540819-59f9216e9ee6bd7bbd003053cd2d60b4.jpg)