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  1. antennaclimber

    Testing Glow Plugs

    Unfortunately I will not be going to the Redball meet this weekend. Put an ohm meter on it and see what the reading is. Then see what the ohm meter reads by touching the leads together, subtract that amount from the resistor reading. The difference will be the value of the resistor pack. It...
  2. antennaclimber

    Testing Glow Plugs

    John, The resistor pack consists of two .28 ohm resistors in parallel, so it should read .14 ohms of resistance.
  3. antennaclimber

    Testing Glow Plugs

    They were just playing "follow the leader"
  4. antennaclimber

    Testing Glow Plugs

    The M1009 seems to be a little hard to start in very cold temperatures. Excessive cranking time and lots of smoke on start up. I was wondering if I had a a few inoperative glow plugs. Ohm tested all 8 glow plugs and found 3 to be completely open. The remaining ones measured out at .8 ohms each...
  5. antennaclimber

    Testing Glow Plugs

    Doghead and I were curious about testing plow plugs with the test light procedure. I have never tried it and we both were curious as to weather or not this is a viable way to test them, so I offered to do a little experiment with the glow plugs that I just removed from my M1009. I found most...
  6. antennaclimber

    Testing Glow Plugs

    I bought a new Snap-On diesel compression gauge recently and finally had time to test the compression on Blazer B. This gauge requires the glow plug to be removed and a adapter to be installed to get the compression reading. Easy enough. Tests went well. While I had the glow plugs out I tested...
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